Movie Cycle pays tribute to Bruno Ganz at Theatre Campo Alegre

Medeia Filmes pays tribute to actor Bruno Ganz at Theatre Campo Alegre in Porto, featuring a movie cycle from 21 to 27 February.

Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor, known for his work in cinema and television. He was granted the Iffland-Ring award. The actor passed away on 16 February, in Switzerland.

The movie cycle includes the projection of the films "The Left-Handed Woman", by Austrian Director Peter Handke, "Wings of Desire" and "The American Friend" by German Director Wim Wenders, "Sob Céus Estranhos", by Portuguese Director Daniel Blaufuks, "The Dust of Time" and "Eternity and a Day" by Greek Director Theo Angelopoulos, "Amnesia", by French Director Barbet Schroeder, and "The House that Jack Built", by Danish Director Lars von Trier.

Bruno Ganz has worked with great names in filmography, namely Wenders, Theo Angelopoulos, Francis Ford Coppola, Alain Tanner, Werner Herzog, Jonathan Demme, or Terrence Malick, and his work has granted him numerous awards, with a special highlight on the Golden Leopard of Locarno Film Festival.

Ganz used to say that "the thing he loved the most was a good story, either appealing to him or annoying him even". He was a member of the Goethe Theatre in Bremen, performing works by Shakespeare, Ibsen and Brecht, and founded the Theatre Company Berliner Schaubühne.

Last August, Ganz recorded the poetry by T. S. Eliot and Holderlin and went on stage, for the last time, as the storyteller of the Mozart's "The Magic Flute" opera, in the Salzburg Festival, in Austria.

Medeia Filmes honours the actor with the movie cycle, at Theatre Campo Alegre, in Porto, from 21 to 27 February.

Also, a tribute is paid is Lisbon in the "Espaço Nimas", on 25 February.

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