Dani Levy

Dani Levy

Dani Levy (born November 17, 1957 in Basel, Switzerland) is a film maker, theatrical director and actor.

Work

Dani Levy's films include RobbyKallePaul, I Was on Mars, Meschugge, Du mich auch and Väter. Väter starred Christiane Paul. His most recent film is Alles auf Zucker!, a comedy about a secularised Jew from the former GDR who has to reconcile himself with his Orthodox brother. A comedy about Adolf Hitler starring German comedian Helge Schneider titled Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler was released in January 2007. Levy said he was influenced by the theory of Swiss-based psychologist Alice Miller, published in 1980, that something must have gone wrong with Hitler in his childhood.

He is one of the founders of the German company X Filme Creative Pool. Levy is Jewish.^[1]

Filmography

• 1986 Du mich auch
• 1989 RobbyKallePaul
• 1992 I Was on Mars
• 1993 Ohne mich
• 1995 Stille Nacht
• 1998 Meschugge
• 1999 Das Geheimnis
• 1999 Aimée & Jaguar
• 2001 Replay
• 2002 Väter
• 2004 Alles auf Zucker!
• 2007 Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler

Footnotes

1. ^ Fleishman, Jeffrey (2006-12-17). "A farcical attack on Hitler taboos". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-hitler17dec17,1,6303277.story?coll=la-news-a_section&ctrack=1&cset=true. Retrieved 2006-12-17. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• http://www.x-filme.de/
• Dani Levy at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.theater-basel.ch/
• Comedy on Hitler turns him into a clown

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