Erwin Geschonneck

Erwin Geschonneck (27.12.1906-12.3.2008): Geschonneck is one of the great actors of the last century. On stage as well as in films, he is bursting with vitality, revealing an unrestrained physicality in which the character to be played and he as the actor merge into each other. The actor's spectrum of roles is broad, in numerous films he plays workers' heroes and anti-fascists, gives dramatic roles for young and old, for example as the huge demonic Dutchman Michel with glass eyes in the fairy tale film DAS KALTE HERZ (1950) and can prove his comic talent in KARBID UND SAUERAMPFER (1963). It is never stereotypes that the actor gives - even in propagandistic films - his characters always have character. (Source: DEFA Foundation)

Erwin Geschonneck (27.12.1906-12.3.2008):

Geschonneck is one of the great actors of the last century. On stage as well as in films, he is bursting with vitality, revealing an unrestrained physicality in which the character to be played and he as the actor merge into each other. The actor's spectrum of roles is broad, in numerous films he plays workers' heroes and anti-fascists, gives dramatic roles for young and old, for example as the huge demonic Dutchman Michel with glass eyes in the fairy tale film DAS KALTE HERZ (1950) and can prove his comic talent in KARBID UND SAUERAMPFER (1963). It is never stereotypes that the actor gives - even in propagandistic films - his characters always have character. (Source: DEFA Foundation)

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