Daniel Brühl, between Marvel and indie cinema

  • We met Daniel Brühl as the young protagonist of ‘Good Bye, Lenin!’ And now he is living a plethora of moments after becoming a viral phenomenon thanks to his role in ‘Falcón and the Winter Soldier’ ​​and his directing debut with ‘The next door’.

In the same year, Daniel Brühl He has played one of the villains of the Marvel universe in ‘Falcon and the Winter Soldier’, winning the sympathy of the whole fandom and has directed his first film as a director. For the Barcelona-born actor with Spanish and German roots, this is the perfect balance, especially if it allows him to continue learning and experimenting. Also, he likes the two things equally and finds them equally stimulating.

His directorial debut, ‘The Door Next Door’, premiered on Friday, November 19, could have been a play because it takes place almost entirely in one space, a bar in East Berlin where an actor from success, Daniel (Daniel Brühl), wait until they pick you up to go to the audition for a big role. There she will interact with a man, Bruno (Peter Kurth) who claims to be his neighbor and to know a lot about him.

“I had always wanted to get behind the camera, but I needed a suitable story that I felt comfortable with,” says Brühl on his visit to Madrid to present the film at the Urban hotel. “Many directors had told me that the first time you should know very well what you were telling. That is why I chose myself as a character, to laugh at the miseries that surround the world of actors, to parody myself & rdquor ;.

But the Daniel Brühl of ‘The next door’ It has nothing to do with the real Daniel Brühl. The fictional is self-centered, arrogant. A surplus, as he defines it, with that typical attitude of looking at everyone over his shoulder. Through him, what I wanted to tell is a topic that has interested him for a long time, that of gentrification, which also in a city like Berlin acquires an even more uncomfortable component since, in the fashionable eastern neighborhoods, the homes of the original owners coexist with designer lofts in the same neighborhood courtyard.

“Economic, political and social differences continue to be present. I belong to a generation that was marked by a very positive spirit, because when the Wall fell I was 11 years old. However, in these moments of crisis, local conflicts increase and populist messages poison the environment. And I get the feeling that the gap between the West and the East persists and there is a lot of prejudice, a lot of bitterness and also frustration & rdquor ;.

Something Hitchcockian

Bruno’s character belongs to the old world, and Daniel’s is supposed to be the new. But he is blindfolded, he does not know what is going on around him, until, during this waiting time, his neighbor will take charge of revealing some secrets that he was not aware of. “Daniel is all appearances, he is supposed to be a successful man, but if you scratch a little, there is a lot of loneliness, sadness and emptiness there. In the end, they are both losers, but at least Bruno is aware of his own story & rdquor ;. ‘Next Door’ has something Hitchcockian about it. The intrigue will unfold through a very measured tension, so that the information that is given becomes crucial when it comes to uncovering the intentions of the characters.

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Brühl has found this new facet of director good, which has also served to make an unexpected session of self-criticism. He has also started producing and his big first film will be a German version of ‘All Quiet on the Front’, based on the novel Erich Maria Remarque. He assures that his next project will be in Spanish, 15 years after playing Salvador Puig Antich in Manuel Huerga’s film.

‘The next door’

Address Daniel Brühl

Interpreters Daniel Brühl, Peter Kurth, Nils Doergelo

Premiere November 19, 2021

Reference-www.elperiodico.com

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