“This is the most beautiful statuette, even more beautiful than the Oscar,” smiled Daniel Brühl as he lifted his Crystal Globe in front of the audience in the Great Hall of the Thermal Hotel. “And I am very pleased that it is the President’s Award, presented directly by the festival president. It will help my midlife crisis,” joked the newly 46-year-old Spanish-German actor. He brought his directorial debut Neighbor to Vary.
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At the same time, he warned that the character he plays in the conversational tragicomedy, which is also called Daniel, does not share much with him. “It’s a personal film, but it’s not inspired by my privacy. So I hope you don’t think the guy you see on the screen is me. I’m a much nicer guy,” he assured the audience with a laugh.
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At least at first, his film alter ego does not seem so distant. A successful Berlin-based actor who speaks Spanish to his children is heading to London to audition – allegedly for a top-secret role for a major American studio.
He has only one page from the script, and on it are two names: Laser Angel and Darkman. At the same time, he tries in vain to elicit anything deeper from his agents regarding his role.
Before the flight, he decides to stop at a popular bar, where he will have some time to prepare. But instead, he runs into a neighbor (played by Peter Kurth), who is also his biggest critic. A complaint regarding his performance “in that movie regarding (East German intelligence) Stasi”, however, their conversation is just beginning.
In fact, it feels as if the film took a very thorough look at Brühl’s filmography and then took a slight step aside with every piece of information.
Peter Kurth and Daniel Brühl in Neighbor | Source: Film Service Festival Karlovy Vary
Brühl became famous 20 years ago with the lead role in the German satire Good bye, Lenin!, where he portrayed a young man who conceals the fall of the Berlin Wall from his mother, who spent the dramatic events of 1989 in a coma. This was followed by supporting roles in The Bourne Ultimatum, The Infamous Banners or, most recently, in the Oscar-winning adaptation of the novel Peace on the Western Front.
But he also played the car racer Niki Lauda in the biographical Rivals or the villain in the Marvel movie Captain America: Civil War and the later associated series.
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“When I was asked which movie I would like in this beautiful place (i.e. in Vary, note ed.) show, I thought of my debut because it is the result of the life I lived through the film,” Brühl confided to the Karlovy Vary audience. “Besides, it’s a Berlin film. I moved to Berlin in my twenties because of the movie Good bye, Lenin! and fell in love with him.’
Neighbor premiered in March 2021 in competition at the Berlinale festival. However, the year was marked by the covid pandemic and its restrictions, so screenings were held online. “The film didn’t enjoy a very long life on the cinema screens,” commented Brühl, “so I’m pleased that it can be shown here today, at one of the most prestigious festivals.”
The packed movie theater, which has over a thousand seats, then decided to immortalize it. “This is magic. Excuse me, I have to take a picture of you mom,” he commented with emotion.
Brühl named the Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe as the most beautiful statuette, more beautiful than Oscar Source: Film Service Festival Karlovy Vary
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