Dani Levy

Dani Levy, born on 17 November 1957, is a Swiss filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter and actor who moved to Berlin in the 1980s. He directed Du mich auch (1986), RobbyKallePaul (1989), I Was on Mars (1991), Stille Nacht (1995), which won an honourable mention at the 46th Berlin International Film Festival, and Meschugge (1998). His comedy Alles auf Zucker! (2004) follows a secularised Jew from the former East Germany who must reconcile with his Orthodox brother, and Mein Führer, the really truest truth about Adolf Hitler (2007), a comedy drama about a Jewish actor hired to coach Hitler in the final days of the war, was entered in the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. Levy also acts, including in The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015), and is one of the founders of the Berlin company X Filme Creative Pool.