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 I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me. I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.
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Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that`s capable of transporting you.
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Leaving [home] is kind of a strange thing - the world opens up, but at the same time, it gets smaller. The more you see of the world, the smaller it seems. After I did the film "Stalingard," I left Germany, and I did a couple of films in France and lived there for about three years, and a couple of films in Italy, and lived there for two years. Then I came over here. The more you get familiar with different countries, the more you think, "Where am I going to live for the rest of my life?" You think, "OK, Germany sucks - don`t want to live there; France, no; Italy - the food is nice, but I don`t want to live there." In the end, you have nowhere to go anymore.
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My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
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I don`t pretend anything anymore. I don`t have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
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I`m proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.
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I`ve worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that`s my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
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I don`t see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
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I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it`s not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn`t, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.
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Trivia
He played a Nazi in The Pianist (2002), and, in Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II (2005) (TV), he played Pope John Paul II, who (as the movie shows) fought against and tried to protect people from the Nazis.
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Modeled in Hugo Boss perfume advertisement.
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Received the Max Ophüls Prize for best young actor in 1991.
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Collaborated again with his The Pianist (2002) co-star Adrien Brody in King Kong (2005). Incidentally, both of Kretschmann's roles with Brody are as captains, albeit of a very different type. In The Pianist (2002), he played a Nazi officer with a conscience; in King Kong (2005) he plays a tough boat captain guiding a film crew.
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Has played a Nazi officer in eight different, completely unrelated films: Stalingrad (1993), U-571 (2000), The Pianist (2002), In Enemy Hands (2004), Untergang, Der (2004), Head in the Clouds (2004),Eichmann (2007) and Valkyrie (2009).
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Started working as an actor at the age of 25, after being trained to be an Olympic swimmer.
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Made his stage debut in "Macbeth," directed by Katharina Thalbach.
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He has three children: one son, Nicolas, one daughter, Stella and another child, with his girlfriend Lena.
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Aged 19, he began a month-long trek from East to West Germany to escape Communism, during which he lost part of his finger to frostbite. He crossed 4 borders with nothing other than a passport and the equivalent of $100 in his possession.
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