Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1957-11-17 (Age: 69)
Place of Birth
Basel, Switzerland
Dani Levy
Biography
Dani Levy (born 17 November 1957) is a Swiss filmmaker, theatrical director, screenwriter and actor. Levy was born to a Jewish family in Switzerland in 1957. His mother was a Holocaust survivor. He moved to Berlin in the 1980s. Levy's films include 'RobbyKallePaul', 'I Was on Mars', 'Meschugge', 'Du mich auch' and 'Väter'. 'Väter' starred Christiane Paul. In 2004, he directed 'Alles auf Zucker!', a comedy about a secularised Jew from the former GDR who has to reconcile himself with his Orthodox brother. In 2007, he directed the comedy-drama 'Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler', about a Jewish actor hired to enliven Adolf Hitler's speeches during the final days of World War II, starring German comedian Helge Schneider. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. Levy said he was influenced by the theory of Swiss-based psychologist Alice Miller, published in 1980, that something must have gone wrong with Hitler in his childhood. His 1995 film 'Stille Nacht' won an Honourable Mention at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. He is one of the founders of the German company X Filme Creative Pool. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dani Levy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (28)
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
Winter Journey
2019
Family Practice
2019Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
2015
Simon Says Goodbye to His Foreskin
2015
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
2015
Life Is Too Long
2010
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema
2009
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood
2006In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004
Silk and Ashes
2003
Replay
2001
The Wedding Cow
1999
