Bruno Ganz, the Swiss actor who explained how to bring Hitler back to life in 1978’s The Boys From Brazil, then pulled off the trick himself in 2004’s Downfall, has died of cancer at the age of 77, the New York Times reports. Ganz was one of the greatest German-language actors of his age, and his long and illustrious film and television career includes work for legendary directors like Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola, Éric Rohmer, and Wim Wenders, for whom Ganz famously played a melancholy angel in Wings of Desire. That’s the thumbnail sketch of his life and work you can pick up from other news sources, the IMDb, or your cinephile friend. But if you had to reconstruct the career of this important actor based on the films Netflix has made available to stream, his obituary would look a little different:
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