The performance in "The Fall of the Empire" made the Chinese audience remember Bruno
On February 15, Swiss time, Bruno Gantz, who played an angel in Wim Wenders's "Under the Berlin Sky" and Hitler in "The Fall of the Empire", died at the age of 77 at his zurich home. Earlier, it was reported that Bruno had colon cancer.
Born on 22 March 1941 in Zurich, Switzerland, Bruno began his theatre appearance in 1961 as a young and accomplished actor whose performances earned him a good reputation.
In 1970 he co-founded the Berlin "schaubuehne" troupe with PeterStein. He was shown in the film in the early 1960s and was not very successful. The 1976 film Sommergäste allowed him to show off his talent as an actor.
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.
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", "Unknown", "Remember" and other films, and his last influential work was "This House I Made".