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Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who plays Adolf Hitler in Downfall, died at the age of 77, his agent said Saturday.
Ganz, who died at his home in Zurich, had a distinguished career on the screen. step before his appearance in 2004 in Downfall, which unfolds in recent days, suffocating in Hitler's bunker.
For many critics, his nuanced portrayal of the fascist tyrant who moves between explosive and dark was unparalleled.
Hitler is a character that German-speaking actors historically hesitated to adopt and that Ganz, a native of Zurich, admitted that Switzerland provided him with a necessary stamp.
"It also helped me not to be German because I could put my pbadport between Hitler and me," Ganz told The Arts Desk website in 2005. He was recently seen in the house Jack built by Lars von Trier.
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First published: February 16, 2019 17:16 IST
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