Daniel Brühl is a young, interesting, ambitious actor who chooses his roles carefully, is not afraid of hard work and who has great prospects for the future in the international film industry.
Daniel first became well known in Germany through his performances in Das weisse Rauschen, Vaya con Dios and Elephantenherz, all of which won awards. But it was his role as Alexander Kerner in the comedy Good Bye, Lenin! which shot him to fame and brought acclaim from international audiences and critics alike. Daniel followed up this film with a strong performance as a rebel disaffected with modern Western society in Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei (The Edukators). He was then offered (arguably) his first English-language part, playing the romantic lead as a Polish violinist in Ladies in Lavender opposite the great British acting legends Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Daniel?s place as a truly pan-European actor has been secured by his moving Spanish and Catalan-speaking performance in the title role of Salvador, a film which was nominated for no fewer than 11 Goyas in 2006.
We welcome to our site all those who are charmed by his talent and good looks and also those who would simply like to find out more about him. Here we provide news about Daniel, interviews, photos, and descriptions and reviews of his films. This is not a commercial site and most of the material comes from the Internet. If we have violated any copyrights, please let us know. We would like to encourage you to participate in the creation of this site. If you have any interesting information or pictures of Daniel that you would like to add to this site, please e-mail them to us: admin@danielbruhl.com
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News: "Eva", the new movie for Daniel Posted by Dana_Wild on Saturday, January 30 @ 11:56:46 CET (96 reads)
Thanks to Karina we know that Daniel is currently filming his latest film, "Eva" , in Barcelona. This is the first movie for the director Kike Maíllo, and it's both filmed in Switzerland and Spain. Thanks to Alix you can read the plot summary in English:
Santa Irene is an imaginary village in Spain where there's always snow. There's also a college, where an investigator called Álex (Daniel) returns, to take up a robotic project which he started as a student years ago. In Santa Irene he meets again with his brother David (Alberto Amann) and meets Eva (Claudia Vega), a girl who suffers from amnesia after a crash. This is the starting point of "Eva", Kike Maíllo's first feature film, which started shooting on 11th January in Switzerland and will continue in Panticosa (Spain) in a couple of days. Maíllo and the actors will shoot in Formigal and in Panticosa, with 150 extras, for 2 weeks and a half. (...)
Daniel will be part of a love triangle involving Alberto Amann and Marta Etura (Eva's mother).The cast also includes Lluís Homar ('Los abrazos rotos', 'Cobardes'), who'll play the part of Álex's butler, and the French Anne Canovas ('Van Gogh' and 'Prêt à porter'), who will be Julia, director of the research center where Álex works.
News: Daniel in "Castro's Daughter" Posted by Dana_Wild on Saturday, January 30 @ 11:48:42 CET (69 reads)
We have known this week that Daniel has joined the filming of "Castro's Daughter" , an indie production that revolves around Aline Fernández, Fidel Castro's daughter who was born from the love affair with the Cuban socialist Naty Revuelta, rejected by his father's regime and fled secretly to Cuba in the early 90s.
The cast will consist of the Spanish actress Paz Vega (as Aline), and the Argentinian Mía Maestro. It will be produced by the oscar-winning Bobby Moresco and Nilo Cruz. John Martínez and Noel Tristán will co-produce the project. The filming is scheduled for this late spring.
News: "The Days to Come" Posted by meininki on Thursday, October 29 @ 22:46:48 CET (676 reads)
''Kóngavegur 7'' isn't the only project Daniel has been working on in recent weeks, he has also been busy filming "Die kommenden Tage" (the English working title is "The Days to Come"), a German drama set in the near future.
Directed and written by Lars Kraume, the film tells the story of protagonist Laura Kuper (played by Bernadette Heerwagen) "before the backdrop of an instable world at the beginning of the 21st century. Her biography and the story of her family take the audience through the near future of the next decade into a utopia of our planet in twenty years."1
Daniel plays Hans, a formerly successful lawyer, who, after having found out that he is losing his eye-sight, has retreated from society and now spends the time that he has left following his passion, which is watching birds.
"Principal photography for the 49-day shoot began towards the end of August in Frankfurt, before moving to North Rhine-Westphalia in September, Berlin in October and wrapping in Austria's Tyrolean Alps at the end of October."2 For more information and some interesting links click on "Read More".
News: ''Kóngavegur 7'' Posted by Dana_Wild on Monday, October 26 @ 16:54:51 CET (298 reads)
Daniel won't stop filming movies, and a new proof of it is "Kóngavegur 7" , the latest movie he's filming in Iceland. "Kóngavegur 7" (King's Road 7 in English) is a comedy-drama set in a trailer trash neighbourhood. Lead character Junior returns to Iceland with many problems, but his return home doesn’t exactly go according to plan.
Kóngavegur 7 is directed by Valdís Óskarsdóttir and follows 2008’s Sveitabrúðkaup (Country Wedding). Óskarsdóttir is better known as an editor and her enviable track record includes a BAFTA Award for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Dogme classics Festen, Mifune and Julien-Donkey Boy.
The ensemble cast from the Vesturport theatre company also includes Ingvar E. Sigurðsson (Jar City), Nína Dögg Filippusdóttir (The Sea) and Gísli Örn Garðarsson.
Kóngavegur 7 is expected to be completed in a fortnight's time, and it’s hoped that Daniel's growing fame courtesy of his work with Tarantino in Inglourious Basterds as well as Paul Greengrass’ similarly high profile The Bourne Ultimatum will help Kóngavegur 7 reach an international audience.
"Lila, Lila" Posted by meininki on Monday, October 26 @ 11:05:55 CET (406 reads)
We’ve heard a lot lately about one of Daniel’s new films, "Lila, Lila" (the film's English title is "My Words, My Lies, My Love"). It tells the story of a young waiter, David Kern, who finds an unpublished manuscript in the drawer of a bedside table. In order to impress a girl, Marie, he pretends to have written it. He publishes it and the novel becomes a best-seller. But someday a man comes to him, claiming he’s the real author.
On 24th September, the film was screened at the opening night of the Zürich Film Festival, which Daniel attended. [click here for photos]
The film has also its own website (in German): www.lilalila-film.de, where we can find numerous information, including the summary, the trailer and pictures.
Lila Lila was also recently screened at the Hamptons Film Festival and was very warmly received. [You can read a review here.]
"Lila, Lila" will be released in Germany on December 17th. written by Alix
You can find a discussion about the film on the forum.
To watch the (German) trailer click on 'Read More'.
News: ''Stolz der Nation'' - Website and Trailer! Posted by meininki on Wednesday, August 05 @ 20:17:16 CEST (916 reads)
The wait is almost over: "Inglourious Basterds" is going to be released in just a few weeks and now "Stolz der Nation" ("Pride of the Nation"), the movie within the movie (directed by Eli Roth), has its very own website and trailer.
You can check out the website hereand watch the trailer here (Quicktime).
News: ''Inglourious Basterds'' premieres in Cannes Posted by meininki on Thursday, May 21 @ 14:05:10 CEST (901 reads)
Yesterday, "Inglourious Basterds" debuted in Cannes to mixed reviews, but there might be some improvements made before the film is released internationally in August.
To shorten the wait, here are a few links that you might find interesting:
You can find a number of videos on the Cannes website. The ones that include Daniel are: - The press conference - The photo call - "The Steps" (There's a short interview with Daniel around the 41-minute mark.) - Highlight: 05/20/09 (Forward to 4:15 to see a scene from the film showing Daniel as Frederick Zoller and Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna Dreyfus!)
Photos of Daniel at the premiere and other Cannes events can now be found in our gallery.
News: Daniel Turns Producer Posted by meininki on Monday, May 18 @ 12:45:39 CEST (655 reads)
Daniel Brühl has founded his own production company, fouronfilm, together with Berlin-based Film1.
Varietyreports: "The new outfit, fouronfilm, also based in Berlin, will focus on filmmaker-driven films and already has a number of projects in the works, including Andreas Kleinert's "Gnadenfrist," based on the novel by Dutch writer Arnon Gruenberg and set to shoot in South America." Daniel has already worked with Film1 twice as an actor. The company produced Sebastian Schipper's "Ein Freund von mir" ("A Friend Of Mine") and is also behind Alain Gsponer's upcoming "Lila, Lila". fouronfilm will focus on international coproductions. Source
News: ''Inglourious Basterds'' at Cannes Posted by meininki on Friday, May 15 @ 13:32:22 CEST (717 reads)
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival began on Wednesday (May 13) and, as expected, "Inglourious Basterds" is one of the films in competition. It will be a few days before we will get to see the first pictures from the red carpet (hopefully including some of Daniel) though as the premiere is slated for May 20th.
In the meantime, here's the first official still of Daniel as Frederick Zoller.
Daniel has also been quoted in a recent New York Times article on the film. Here's what he had to say:
News: Daniel joins ''New Moon''! Posted by meininki on Wednesday, April 01 @ 12:01:33 CEST (1214 reads)
Update:
We hope you all had a lovely April Fools' Day.
It looks like this might really be the year that Daniel will have his breakthrough in the English-speaking world. According to various sources, Daniel has joined the cast of the upcoming "Twilight" sequel "New Moon"!
After it was announced this week that British actor Jamie Campbell-Bower is going to play Caius, we can now confirm that Daniel has been cast as one of the two remaining Volturi leaders, ancient Vampires that "are regarded as "royalty" by other vampires". Whether Daniel is going to play Aro, "who can read every thought a person has ever had once he has made physical contact", or Marcus, "who senses relationships", has not yet been confirmed.
News: Daniel to reunite with Wolfgang Becker Posted by meininki on Tuesday, February 03 @ 22:24:02 CET (1059 reads)
Today it was reported that Daniel is going to reunite with director Wolfgang Becker, six years after "Good Bye Lenin!" became a worldwide hit. Becker is going to adapt "Me and Kaminski" by German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann ("Measuring the World"). Daniel is set to play the lead.
About the novel: Sebastian Zollner is a journalist and art critic. He is not a likeable man. Belligerent, arrogant and impatient, he sets off to record the life and loves of the legendary (depending on whom he asks) painter Manuel Kaminski.
Zollner has few scruples, and shows little hesitation in bullying his way to “the truth”. He only hopes that Kaminski’s heart will last the duration (though it would be ideal if it gave up soon afterwards – death being the final ingredient for a bestseller).
[To learn more about this and some of Daniel's other projects, click on 'Read More']
News: "The Countess" - New poster and stills! Posted by meininki on Tuesday, February 03 @ 19:24:03 CET (1269 reads)
Just a few days before the world premiere of "The Countess" at the Berlin Film Festival, sales agency Celluloid Dreams has published a poster, as well as some stills from the film. You can see two of the stills below, they show Daniel with director, writer and lead actress Julie Delpy.
News: Daniel is the ''Pride of the Nation'' Posted by meininki on Tuesday, February 03 @ 19:04:57 CET (913 reads)
Filming on "Inglourious Basterds" is as good as finished, according to The Quentin Tarantino Archives this is the last week of principal photography. We already got to see some pictures and even videos of Daniel on set, now the first "official" pictures have become public.
In "Inglourious Basterds", Daniel plays Frederick Zoller, a young German sniper and star of a (fictitious) Nazi propaganda film called "Stolz der Nation" ("Pride of the Nation"). "Stolz der Nation" was directed by Eli Roth as a movie within the movie. The art departement went all out and produced numerous posters, lobby cards and program invitations for the film, some of which you can see over at The Quentin Tarantino Archives.
News: First Daniel pic from ''Inglorious Bastards''!!! Posted by equinox on Monday, November 03 @ 06:06:08 CET (1918 reads)
German actor Daniel Bruehl takes part in the filming of US director Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Inglorious Bastards" in the eastern German town of Goerlitz on November 2, 2008.The film tells the story of a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" who are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.AFP PHOTO DDP / SEBASTIAN WILLNOW
Until now, there are no words about Daniel's role but looking at the picture and if you have already read the script, the character that fits Daniel is the German Private Frederick Zoller. He will have several scenes with French Actress Melanie Laurent, another lead performer in the movie who will play Shosanna.
Main Cast: (From IMDB)
Brad Pitt - Lt. Aldo Raine
Diane Kruger - Bridget Von Hammersmack
Melanie Laurent - Shosanna Dreyfus
Christoph Waltz - Col. Hans Landa
Daniel Bruehl - Frederick Zoller (or Hellstrom but unlikely)
News: Daniel to work with Tarantino Posted by meininki on Thursday, September 04 @ 21:32:59 CEST (1200 reads)
After there had already been some speculation in the German media, Daniel last week confirmed that he has been cast for Quentin Tarantino's new film "Inglorious Bastards".
He toldGerman magazineBunte at the First Steps Awards in Berlin: “I'm insanely happy about this role. If I hadn't gotten it, I would have been really disappointed.”
No further detailson Daniel's have been released yet. Filming will begin in Germany on October 13th.
Daniel to attend world premiere in Toronto Posted by meininki on Friday, August 22 @ 10:47:02 CEST (1139 reads)
According to Bavaria Film International, Daniel will travel to Canada to attend the world premiere of "Krabat ".
As we reported earlier, "Krabat" will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Sprockets Family Zone. The German fantasy film will be shown on the following dates:
Fri 5-Sep at 14:30 Varsity 4 | Press & Ind Sun 7-Sep at 15:30 Scotiabank Theatre 3 | World Premiere Tue 9-Sep at 20:15 Varsity 3 Fri 12-Sep at 20:00 AMC 4
News: Krabat in TIFF 2008 Posted by equinox on Friday, July 25 @ 04:36:37 CEST (1343 reads)
German Fantasy Film "Krabat" starring Daniel and David Kross was invited to this year's Toronto International Film Festival (September 4 to 13).
Krabat will be shown in the Sprockets Family Zone programme/section of the festival dedicated to featuring films that represent the best in contemporary international children's cinema. Whether drama or animation, these films will provide an entertaining and cultural experience for children and adults alike.
News: ''Krabat'' Trailer! Posted by meininki on Monday, July 07 @ 20:06:18 CEST (1452 reads)
The long-awaited trailer for Daniel's upcoming German fantasy film "Krabat" is finally online! To see it in higher resolution, click HERE. You can watch a subtitled version here .
"Krabat" will be released in Germany on October 9th.
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Daniel Brühl is a young, interesting, ambitious actor who chooses his roles carefully, is not afraid of hard work and who has great prospects for the future in the international film industry.
Thanks to Karina we know that Daniel is currently filming his latest film, 
We have known this week that Daniel has joined the filming of 
Daniel won't stop filming movies, and a new proof of it is 
Daniel Brühl has founded his own production company, 
German actor Daniel Bruehl takes part in the filming of US director Quentin Tarantino's latest film "Inglorious Bastards" in the eastern German town of Goerlitz on November 2, 2008.The film tells the story of a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" who are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.AFP PHOTO DDP / SEBASTIAN WILLNOW
German Fantasy Film "Krabat" starring Daniel and David Kross was invited to this year's Toronto International Film Festival (September 4 to 13).
