Beauty Break: Franz Rogowski (Great Freedom)

by Nathaniel R

Franz Rogowski at Cannes for "The Great Freedom" this summer

This morning we learned that Sebastian Meise's Great Freedom, a German language post war drama about a homosexual in prison will be Austria's submission for the Oscars this year (chart updates). The film stars Franz Rogowski who we've loved looking at ever since we first saw him in the amazing continuous shot movie Victoria (2015) and whose career picked up steam after the international acclaim for Transit (2018). 2021 has been a busy year for the German star. The romantic fantasy Undine (2020) was released in June in the US and directly afterwards he spent the next few months at film festivals promoting three new projects: Great Freedom at Cannes in July, Luzifer at Locarno in August, and the Italian film Freaks Out at Venice in early September. 

Photos, some shot by the man himself (who has a fun Instagram account), some from his movies, and some lifted from MNPP (Jason is also a huge fan) are after the jump...

GREAT FREEDOM (2021)

from his Instagram accountUNDINE (2020)

FRONTALWATTE (2011) his film debutfrom an unknown photo shoot we loveTRANSIT (2018)
with the makeup artist Roman Braunhofer (and presumably his own hair) behind the scenes on GREAT FREEDOM (2021)a photoshoot at Berlinale in 2020from his instagramLOVE STEAKS (2013)
from his Instagram accountPhoto by Marco KrügerLUZIFER (2021)LUZIFER (2021) in poster form
from his instagram accountfrom an unknown photoshootGREAT FREEDOM photo call at Cannes earlier this yearVICTORIA (2015)phot of unknown origin
from his instagram account

Are you also a fan of Franz Rogowski? 

Oscar doesn't often respond to LGBTQ films like Great Freedom in the Best International Feature Film category but we will see Great Freedom if we can find it before the finalist list is announced for the competition in December.

Comments

[Amy Camus]

It's not his fault, but when I watch him I get distracted because he looks so much like Joaquin Phoenix.

[thevoid99]

Now that is a man. A manly-manly-manly-manly-man. Yeah, I'm gay for him.

[Kris]

I like his originality, even though he is kind of same in all his movies (mainly due to his special looks). And Great freedom was a good movie. It's also on Europen Film Academy's long list and premiered n Cannes... I've only seen 9 of the actually submitted films so far and Great freedom is 3rd best out of these after Germany's I'm your man and Japan's Drive my car.