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Dani Levy (born November 17, 1957 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film maker, theatrical director director and actor. His films include RobbyKallePaul, I Was on Mars, Meschugge, Du mich auch and Väter. Väter starred Christiane Paul. His most recent film is Alles auf Zucker!, a comedy about a secularised Jew from the former GDR who has to reconcile himself with his Orthodox brother. A comedy about Adolf Hitler starring German comedian Helge Schneider titled Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler was released in January 2007. 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. 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest urban area as... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke while waiting between takes during location filming An actor is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. ... This article is about motion pictures. ... Christiane Paul (born 8 March 1974 in Pankow, Berlin) is a German film, television and stage actress. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... Separate articles treat Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Orthodox Judaism. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Helge Schneider 2002 Helge Schneider (b. ... Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler is a German film directed by Dani Levy, released in January 2007. ... Alice Miller (b. ...


He is one of the founders of the German company X Filme Creative Pool. Levy is Jewish.[1] For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ...


Filmography

  • 1986 Du mich auch
  • 1989 RobbyKallePaul
  • 1992 I Was on Mars
  • 1993 Ohne mich
  • 1995 Stille Nacht
  • 1998 Meschugge
  • 1999 Das Geheimnis
  • 2002 Väter
  • 2004 Alles auf Zucker!
  • 2007 Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler

Alles auf Zucker! is a German comedy film, released internationally in 2004. ... Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler is a German film directed by Dani Levy, released in January 2007. ...

Footnotes

  1. ^ Fleishman, Jeffrey. "A farcical attack on Hitler taboos", The Los Angeles Times, 2006-12-17. Retrieved on 2006-12-17.

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Dani Levy was born in Basel in 1957, and has lived in Berlin since 1980.
In 1993, Levy won the Hypobank Director's Prize at the Munich Film Festival with his WDR-commissioned short film OHNE MICH (1993), which launched a spate of movies against the resurgence of right-wing radicalism in Germany.
With his 2002 family drama VÄTER (I'm the Father), Levy painted a highly topical and vivid portrait of an ambitious generation that is forever at risk of coming to grief over its own aspirations.
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Levy, who presented “Meschugge” (“The Giraffe”) at the festival six years ago, is scheduled to attend.
Levy adds, “Underneath the understandable fear of poor ratings, I think there was a fear of political incorrectness and [to] not touch the German-Jewish issue.
While Levy was adamant about taking Jews off their pedestal, he was equally careful not to present them as sleazy or cynical.
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