That is so true and its so sad to observe the following in the Australian press anyway:Mister Tee wrote:A fine actor, who's probably been more widely seen in those fake-subtitled clips from Downfall than in any of his other excellent work.
1) Bruno Ganz's passing is getting way more press than Albert Finney got because (read on in point two), though The Guardian has been the exception;
2) Its primarily in relation to the fake-subtitled clips from Downfall that Mister Tee mentioned;
3) They pretty much only mention his work in Downfall, Herzog, Rohmer, Wenders and Hollywood junk and ignore some of his best European work like Knife in the Head, In the White City & The Dust of Time (which I have to admit I don't care for but plenty do);
4) That the press in Australia is so clueless that they fall to even mention that he appeared in Gillian Armstrong's The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992) which on its release was very well received and did pretty good business (and for my money easily Armstrongs best work).
A side note: a live near were much of Chez Nous was shot. The house in which most of the film is set is a 3 minute walk around two corners from where I have lived since 2007. I didn't realise it was the house from the film until we happened to rewatch the film about 6 or 7 years ago and of course went 'wow, thats just around the corner'. We now refer to the house as the 'Chez Nous House'.