Bruno Ganz

Ganz spent nearly six decades crossing between German stage, television, and film, working with Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, and Theo Angelopoulos. He played Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend in 1977, Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre in 1979, and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire in 1987. In 2000 he took on Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein's staging of both parts of Goethe's Faust. Then came Downfall in 2004: his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the dictator's last days earned the film an Academy Award nomination and brought him renewed internat…