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Dani Levy
Basel, Switzerland
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 Hol…
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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.
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2026
Kochschule Schwarz
Movie Director
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2022
The Sheikh
TV show Writer
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2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
Movie Self
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2020
The Kangaroo Chronicles
Movie Director
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2019
Berlin, I Love You
Movie Director
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2019
Winter Journey
Movie Landlord
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2019
Family Practice
Movie Karl Kaufmann
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2017
Abendshow
TV show Self
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2016
Wunderlich's World
Movie Screenplay
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2015
Hotel Bogota - Eine einmalige Geschichte
Movie Self
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2015
Simon Says Goodbye to His Foreskin
Movie Moderator
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2015
The People vs. Fritz Bauer
Movie Chaim Cohn
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2015
Der Liebling des Himmels
Movie Director
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2010
Life Is Too Long
Movie
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2010
Tonspur – Der Soundtrack meines Lebens
TV show Self
- 2009
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2009
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
Movie (segment "Joshua")
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2008
Paris-Berlin, le débat
TV show Self
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2007
Krömer - Die internationale Show
TV show Self
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2007
My Führer
Movie Director
- 2006
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2004
Go for Zucker
Movie Screenplay
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2004
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
Movie Self
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2004
Kulturplatz
TV show Self
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2004
Im Palais
TV show Self
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2004
Leute am Donnerstag
TV show himself
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2003
ZIBB
TV show Self
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2003
Menschen bei Maischberger
TV show Self
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2003
Silk and Ashes
Movie Dimitri Zamelsky
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2003
West.art am Sonntag
TV show Self
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2002
Sendung ohne Namen
TV show himself
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2002
I'm The Father
Movie Director
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2002
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
TV show Self
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2001
Replay
Movie Matthias
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2001
Aeschbacher
TV show Self
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1999
The Wedding Cow
Movie Fleabag Hotel Concierge
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1999
Volle Kanne
TV show Self
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1999
The Giraffe
Movie David Fish
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1999
TV total
TV show Self
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1999
Aimée & Jaguar
Movie Fritz Borchert
