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It must have been appealing to play someone who could be you, or the worst version of you. The self-satisfaction of this guy is really hilarious.
Daniel Brühl: I felt cleansed after making this film. I could take revenge for all the things I have been told in my life. This is the price you pay as an actor, and I was happy to pay it â I still think it s a wonderful profession. But in these last couple of years, people have not been keeping their distance. They observe you, judge you and interrupt your conversations. Some of them have this desperate need to tell you how horrible they find you! It was a way to deal with that, and to break the image of me. Since
Peter Kurth and Daniel Brühl in Next Door
The Captain America: Civil War and Inglourious Basterds star has a few laughs at his own expense in Next Door, playing a cocky actor named Daniel who gets taken down a few pegs by a vengeful neighbor. Write what you know goes the old creative cliché. And, at first glance, it would seem German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl (
The Alienist,
Next Door, his directorial debut.
In the dark comedy, which premieres in competition at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival, and which Beta Film is selling at this year s European Film Market, Brühl plays a German-Spanish actor named Daniel. Daniel, like Brühl, lives in a luxury rooftop apartment in a hip quarter of East Berlin. Daniel, like Brühl, is famous for roles in big international productions. (When we first meet Daniel, he s rehearsing lines for a role in an American superhero franchise.) Daniel even has much of the same personal backstory as the real-life Brühl: he s marr
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Reckoning With the Armenian Genocide
In his new book, Khatchig Mouradian discusses the key role Armenians played in organizing a humanitarian resistance against the destruction of their people.
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February 26, 2021
Khatchig Mouradian s new book, The Resistance Network, focuses on the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Syria.
The Resistance Network, the new book by Khatchig Mouradian, a lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, is a history of an underground network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian genocide. Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as passive victims of violence and objects of Western humanitarianism, demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a resistance against the destruction of their people.
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