2024-07-12 03:50:26
German actor and director Daniel Brühl, multiple winner of the European Film Award, known for his films Good Bye, Lenin! or Shameful Pancharti, received the prize of the President of the Karlovy Vary Festival from Jiří Bartoška. His arrival on the red carpet was accompanied by great interest from the audience and the media.
The actor patiently and smilingly made his way through the crowd of photographers, handed out several autographs and took a joint photo with a female fan. “Despite his extraordinary success, he was able to maintain the behavior of a person who seems to have just started in the film industry,” stated moderator Marek Eben.
“That’s a beautiful statuette, more beautiful than Oscar,” said Brühl after receiving the award. “It’s nice to receive such an award from the hands of the festival president, it’s a great honor and it will help me overcome my midlife crisis. And the way the director and the audience run this festival inspires me to make more films,” he added.
Brühl then presented the 2021 comedy Neighbor, which he directed and starred in, to a packed large hall at the Thermal Hotel. “The film had a short life, I showed it during the pandemic and it was only on the screen for a short time. That’s why I am grateful to the Karlovy Vary festival that I can present it here. I hope you don’t think that I am like the person I play. I am much bigger nice guy,” made the audience laugh before the screening.
The hero of this Brühl directorial debut, a comedy about envy and revenge, is still called Daniel. He lives in Berlin and is a movie star accustomed to success. He has a stylish attic apartment, a stylish wife and nanny. Everything is ready for him to fly to London, where he will audition for a role in an American superhero film. However, when he goes to a local bar before leaving for the airport, he meets a man who has been waiting for this moment for a long time. His neglected neighbor, a victim of the reunification and socio-cultural changes of the former East Berlin, chose Daniel as the object of his revenge.
Wolfgang Becker’s nostalgic tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin! became a crucial title for the beginning of Daniel Brühl’s career. from 2003. In it, he portrayed a young man whose mother, in a coma, slept through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the unification of Germany. To soften her possible shock, the boy plays a spectacular mystification and begins to pretend that East Germany continues to live under socialism.
The film scored points at the European Film Awards, where Brühl won a statuette for best actor.
He was nominated for the European Film Award for the second time for his role in the social crime drama Civic Education from 2004, shown at the Cannes festival. Another award for the best actor according to the audience’s vote won him the romantic drama Love in Thoughts.
In his native Spain, he shot the biographical film Salvador, inspired by the story of the Catalan anarchist of the same name. In 2009, he captured the attention of the American audience with the role of German war hero Frederick Zoller in Quentin Tarantino’s Infamous Pancharti.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe and a British Academy Bafta award for his role as Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda in the sports drama Rivals. In 2016, he appeared alongside Emma Watson and Michael Nyqvist in the film Colony. Brühl portrayed the antagonist in Captain America: Civil War. In the political thriller based on the real events of Operation Entebbe, he again portrayed the German radical Wilfred Bose.
Brühl’s most recent work was the 2022 adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel Quiet on the Western Front, which won four Oscars. Brühl participated in the project not only as an actor, but also as an executive producer. His most recent credits include the Disney+ biographical series Becoming Karl Lagerfeld, in which Daniel Brühl played the title role of the famous fashion designer.
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