Leading German film and theatre actor Ulrich Tukur will appear at the 51st KVIFF to present Sven Taddicken’s Original Bliss, which is being shown in competition at the festival.
Tukur began his acting career at the theatre in Heidelberg, after which he spent several years with the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where he worked with leading directors such as Peter Zadek.
He launched his film career in the 1980s with a role in Michael Verhoeven’s The White Rose. Over the years, he has appeared in numerous television films and series, including the popular police drama Crime Scene (Tatort).
In 2006, he played one of the main roles in The Lives of Others, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. He also played one of the leads in Michael Haneke’s drama The White Ribbon (2009), which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, a Golden Globe and received two Oscar nominations. Tukur could last be seen at the Karlovy Vary IFF in Bastian Günther’s Houston (2013).
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