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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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Born in Zurich in 1941. Having spent a short time in Paris, he studied acting at the Zurich Bühnenstudio (now the Schauspiel-Akademie). He played his first parts in Swiss films of the 60s, following which he started working as an actor in different European theatres: Junges Theater in Göttingen, Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen... In 1967 he acted in the first production directed by Peter Stein and in 1970 had already become the soul of the Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer company in West Berlin.
He started working regularly in films in 1975, and from the next year on almost exclusively dedicated his time to cinema, although in 1982 he returned to the stage of the Theater am Leniner Plaz in Berlin with Hamlet, directed by Klaus Michael Grüber and, in 1984, performed in Oberon in der Park, directed by Peter Stein.
He has starred in numerous films under different international directors, such as Die Fälschung (Circle of Deceipt, 1980), by Volker Schlöndorff, Dans la ville blanche (In the White City, 1983), by Alain Tanner, Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire, 1987), by Wim Wenders, Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day, 1998), by Theo Angelopoulos, Pan e tulipani (Bread and Tulips, 1999), by Silvio Soldini, The Manchurian Candidate (2004), by Jonathan Demme, and Der Untergang (Downfall, 2004), in which he plays a superb Hitler earning him international recognition, including the Best Actor Award from the European Film Academy.
His most recent works include Vitus (2006), by Fredi M. Murer, which will be screened in the Pearls chapter of the Zabaltegi section at San Sebastian Festival.
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