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The Film File
In the past, in such films as Wim Wenders' "The American Friend" and "Wings of Desire," the Swiss-German actor Bruno Ganz seemed a rather gentle and melancholy fellow. Soft as swans' feathers, Ganz caressed the viewer with a doleful gaze and a rounded baritone voice that turned even commonplace German phrases into soothing near-poetry. Ganz appeared to carry the weight of European cultivation on his back, not as a glory but as a burden of sensitivity, even anguish--one felt his attentiveness to the slightest breeze of anxiety or willfulness in the air around him. Given these impressions, the obvious initial response to ...