Bruno ganz, a famous Swiss actor who played the "Führer" in the movie "The Destruction of Empires", died at home on February 16 at the age of 77 from colon cancer.
Bruno was born on March 22, 1941 in Zurich, Switzerland. Although a Swiss actor, he has been active in the German-speaking world for a long time and has starred in a large number of German-language films.
He played the "angel" in Wim Wenders' Under the Berlin Sky. Divinity and humanity radiate a lasting glow in his gentle performances, and when black and white and colored light and shadow are intertwined, one of his eyes can make people feel warm.
From the 1970s to the 1980s, Bruno Gantz collaborated with Werner Herzog, Volker Schrondorff, Wim Wenders, a number of German contemporary film giants, and jointly presented a series of "new German films" such as "American Friend", the new version of "Northfrathu", "The Wrong Witness", "The End of the World", "Under the Berlin Sky", etc., which is definitely the first male star in the German film industry.
However, the role that is most familiar to Chinese audiences should be the "devil" played by this angel - Adolf Hitler.
Gantz once rejected the protagonist of Spielberg's "Schindler's List", the German "Jewish savior" played by Liam Neeson, but in 2004 he played the "number one villain" in "The Destruction of the Empire". This role has brought him great honors, and the classic clip of "Fuehrer's Wrath" in the film has been imitated in video networks such as B station.
At the same time, he has also played for world film masters such as Eric Houmai, Theo Angelopoulos, Francis Ford Coppola and other world film masters, starring in "O Marquise", "Eternal Day", "Youth Without Youth" and other masterpieces, and his 2000 Italian comedy "Dream Tulip" is also one of the most popular films in European audiences.
In 2010, the 23rd European Film Awards presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Bruno. In recent years, Bruno has also starred in "Heidi and Grandpa", "Unidentified", "Remember" and other films.
Film and theater performance are the things Gantz is willing to put into all his careers. German theater director Peter Stein tailored the role of Faust in Faust i&ii for Gantz, which lasted 21 hours.
Although he accidentally fell and was seriously injured at the age of nearly 60 during the rehearsal in the early stages of the premiere, after recovering, he still gave his all for the role. Whether it is film or drama, he uses a humble way to engrave colorful marks on the artistic road.
For Shanghai viewers, June will be the best tribute to Bruno Gantz. In the retrospective exhibition of Angelopoulos in the "Tribute to the Master" unit held at the 2019 Shanghai International Film Festival, there is a film "Dust of Time" in which he starred.
The film tells the story of a Greek-American film director played by William Dafoe who prepares to film the love memories of his parents, and Gantz plays a German Jew who has tried his best to help the director's mother and has a crush on her. Angelopoulos constantly transforms time and space through the interlacing of two lines, connecting the past and the modern, memory and reality, and methodically mixing the history of three different periods, allowing the audience to step from the opening of the screen into the unfamiliar Greek historical world, and through the light of the screen, the history of Greek changes in the 20th century.
Gantz's character in "Dust of Time" is kind and innocent, tender as water. Although he played a supporting role in "Dust of Time", he was like a shimmering firefly in the film, emitting a clear golden light among all beings, faint but bright enough. At the end of the film, the choice made by this character is also the most shocking scene in the whole film.
Synthesized from the movie Shan Hai Jing, Sina News, etc
Production Editor: Tong Weijing