Christopher Waltz

And it is more than paradoxical that Christoph Waltz, who has a rabbi son, has achieved celebrity with the role of Colonel Landa, called in the film “Jew hunter”, a magnetic, sibylline personality, who has a certain Mephistophelian appeal and whose wiles They are absolutely abominable. Many critics have opined that the movie Inglourious Basterds is practically saved thanks to his magnificent performance. Without detracting from the director or the rest of the cast, it will surely be so. In fact, Quentin Tarantinohas more than high praise for Waltz: “I think Landa is one of the best characters I’ve ever written and ever will write, and Christoph played him perfectly… It’s true that if I hadn’t found someone as good as Christoph, I wouldn’t could have done Inglourious Basterds .”

Christoph Waltz, currently divorced and father of three children, was born on October 4, 1956 in Vienna (Austria). Anyone can think that it was sung that the boy was going to be an actor, because his parents, Elisabeth and Johannes, were dedicated to the world of cinema (specifically they shared an occupation, since they were production designers) and his grandparents were also actors . When asked about his profession, Christoph answers simply and with a certain sarcasm: “”My desire to be an actor was a fixation in my development. In psychological terms, it is about that narcissistic period of adolescence, and that I never got over.” The young man studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and later completed his training at the prestigious Lee StrasbergTheater Institute of New York. One of Waltz’s great talents is his ability to learn languages, as he is fluent in French and English, as well as his native German and a smattering of Italian, Hungarian and Slovenian. In fact, it seems that one of the reasons Tarantino chose him was his polyglot ability.

Waltz made his debut in 1977 with a role in the telefilm Der Einstand and from that moment on he would add to his filmography with a multitude of works for television, the medium in which he has shown the most of his skills. In total he has participated in almost a hundred productions throughout his career, although it is true that most of the time he has only had brief appearances in very secondary roles. Among his most accomplished films are the television thrillers Der Fall Gehring (2003) and Das Geheimnis im Wald (2008). With the consecrated German actor Sebastian Koch , protagonist of The Lives of Others , he shared the television poster in the thrillerDer Tanz mit dem Teufel – Die Entführung des Richard Oetker (2001) and later in the drama Zwei Tage Hoffnung (2003). He also had prominent work on the European co-production The Bible: Jacob (1994).

As for his work for the cinema, the truth is that there is little to point out until Inglourious Basterds . He appeared in the dramatic comedy Herr Lehmann and in the biographical thriller Criminal and Decent . And she had leading roles in the adventurous She: The Secret of the Ring and especially in the dramatic Maximilian Kolbe , directed by Krzysztof Zanussi . After touching heaven with his character as Hans Landa, the actor is on the way to consolidating a filmography worthy of his talent and thus became a very main part of the cast of the next film by Michel Gondry , The Green Hornet .

However, after two unsuccessful appearances in Water for Elephants and one more version of “The Three Musketeers” by Dumas, he excelled wonderfully in A Wild God (2011), an intelligent actor’s film that adapted a play by Yasmina Reza . They were the run-up to the big bell, which would come again from the hand of his discoverer, Quentin Tarantino . With his role as bounty hunter doctor King Schultz in Django Unchained, Hollywood has once again fallen at the feet of his sarcastic talent and the Academy has awarded him the Oscar for best supporting actor for the second time. In any case, he prefers to keep his feet on the ground: “I don’t want to think about the future. It may seem strange, but I prefer to keep my innocence.”