The year of Jurgen Vogel
After winning a Silver Bear for Best Artistic Contribution at this year’s Berlin Film Festival for his role in The Free Will by Matthias Glasner, Jürgen Vogel won Best Actor at the Tribeca Film Festival on Saturday.
The Free Will, which Vogel co-scripted and produced and in which he plays the lead role, is a love-story between a rapist freed after nine years in a psychiatric hospital and a young woman (Sabine Timoteo) who finally, at the age of 27, comes to terms with childhood mental abuse by her father.
At 38, the Hamburg-born actor has already led a remarkable career. He first attracted attention in Rosamunde by Egon Günthers, winning the Best Actor award at the 1990 Bavarian Film Festival for his role as an unstable kidnapper. Two years later, he was in the spotlight once again at the festival, again picking up a Best Actor award for his superb performance in the comedy Little Sharks by Sönke Wortmanns.
Vogel starred in Dani Levy’s (Go for Zucker! [+see also:
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After last year’s success with Barefoot by Til Schweiger, 2006 has got off to a good start for Vogel. This year, he will star in Ein Freund von mir (lit. “A Friend of Mine”) by Sebastian Schipper (playing alongside Daniel Brühl and, once again, Sabine Timoteo) – to be released by X Verleih (Warner) on October 26 – and in Paulas Geheimnis by Gernot Krää.
(Translated from French)
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