 Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo, best known simply as Daniel Brühl, is great talent from Europe!  Here you can find some additional info about Daniel Brühl who act since he was a child but he was firstly recognized after his amazing performance in the 2003 award-winning film Goodbye Lenin! Directed by Wolfgang Becker. The film shows how a lovely son named Alex (played by Brühl) would do anything to protect his mother after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  The movie was acclaimed by the audiences, combining a mixture of teen angst, bittersweet romance and a rather personal and often comedic look into the lives of a typical German family, the film depicted an important part of German history. Some interesting fact is that many young Eastern Europeans appreciated the film because they see themselves in Brühl. But the acclaim is not limited to those who lived in the Iron Curtain, as the success of the film is almost universal.Brühl eventually won the best actor award at the European Film Academy. It was a first of many accolades for the young German actor. After Goodbye Lenin, Brühl starred in a number of high-profile roles, cementing his position as one of Europe’s most important leading men. Among the roles that brought much acclaim to Brühl are Hans Weingartner’s The Edukators, the youthful drama “was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken” (Love in Thoughts), Ladies in Lavender and Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas). The Edukators is another great movie Daniel starred in! This time he was reunited with noted filmmaker Hans Weingartner, whom he collaborated earlier in The White Sound, where Brühl plays a young man suffering from schizophrenia.Many regarded Daniel role as Jan in The Edukators as one of his finest. Probably his best after his role as the young East German, Alex coping with the sweeping change of reunification in Goodbye Lenin!Edukators tells a very interesting story, showing two young Germans Peter (Stipe Erceg) and Jan (Daniel Brühl) take their political beliefs very seriously and wanted to make sure they are heard. They decided that to effectively send the message, they invaded the mansions of the wealthy, rearranged their furniture and valuables and leave messages like "your days of plenty are numbered." When Peter's girlfriend Jule (Julia Jentsch) moves in, she joins them in their subversive activities. But when a rich businessman catches them in the act, they decided to kidnap him. Faced with the values of the generation in power, they will see what kind of revolutionaries they are, if their friendship can survive, and discover if they truly work in the interest of the greater good, or just for their own self-interest. Whether he remains untainted by his own success is an open question. "It's sad but true but if you have a commercial success you become valuable. This is how it works unfortunately and that's what has happened to me. There are much more offers than before. It's tough because I want to be very careful. My father is a good adviser. He didn't want me to become an actor because he said they were stupid and vain. Now he's proud of me and we work together." Aside from The Edukators, much praised was given to Brühl when he starred in another notable film that year, Love in Thoughts. Pitting talents (and charm) with another top German talent, August Diehl, the film is based on a true story of a suicide pact between two young men. Set in 1927, it depicts a fascinating period when Germany took a brief respite between two world wars. In Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas), Brühl starred with two other German acting talents, former supermodel and German icon Diane Kruger (Troy) and the Benno Fürmann (The Princess and the Warrior). The film also starred French heartthrob Guillame Canet. This Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film, tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I. The colloaborative nature of the film's production is but a testament to Brühl's growing reputation as a star with an international appeal. On the lighter side, Ladies in Lavender provided Brühl with an opportunity to get an introduction to British cinema and a chance to work alongside two acting greats- Judi Dench and Maggie Smith .  Daniel played in 2006 another career-defining role. As anti-Franco-fighter Salvador Puig Antich, Brühl wasted no time to showcase his range as an actor. Evidently, he wanted to make sure that his audience is aware that he's ready to take on more matured roles. And it was made a comparison between his role in Salvador and in The Edukators "The roles do have a lot in common. Salvador and Jan are both young men that fight injustice and that want to change the system. This courage for wanting to change things and to risk something for it I do admire a lot. " says Brühl. At the Berlin Film Festival in 2007, Daniel also made waves in the romantic comedy film, Two Days in Paris. The film was the directorial debut of French actress Julie Delpy, who also played the lead star.After, in a quite prophetic interview, Daniel said about what kind of roles he would like to play: "One day I would like to play the nasty scheming rat, one whole movie through. Perhaps like John Malkovich in "Dangerous Liaisons" - that's my dream." And then Brühl starred in the Anglo/Russian production In Tranzit where played an evil prisoner of war, also co-stars (coincidence?!) John Malkovich. Feel free to post your comments and suggestions! And more info & pics will be added here soon! Hope you enjoy it ! See ya ^^  » Daniel Brühl' Slideshow For You : ___________________________________________________________________ |
