Dani Levy

Dani Levy
Born	(1957-11-17) 17 November 1957 Basel, Switzerland
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1986-present

Dani Levy (born 17 November 1957) 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. It was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival.

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. His 1995 film Stille Nacht won an Honourable Mention at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival.

He is one of the founders of the German company X Filme Creative Pool. Levy is Jewish.

Filmography

Director

• 1986 Du mich auch
• 1989 RobbyKallePaul
• 1991 I Was on Mars
• 1993 Ohne mich (Short)
• 1995 Stille Nacht
• 1998 Meschugge
• 1999 Das Geheimnis (Short)
• 2002 de
• 2004 Alles auf Zucker!
• 2007 Mein Führer – Die wirklich wahrste Wahrheit über Adolf Hitler
• 2010 de

Actor

• 1986 Du mich auch … Romeo
• 1989 RobbyKallePaul … Robby
• 1991 Hausmänner … Paul
• 1991 I Was on Mars … Alio
• 1993 Ohne mich (Short) … Simon Rosenthal
• 1994 Einer meiner ältesten Freunde … Zeto
• 1995 Halbe Welt … Katz
• 1995 Die Mediocren … Jost
• 1998 Meschugge … David Fish
• 1999 Aimée & Jaguar … Fritz Borchert
• 2001 Replay … Matthias

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