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 account
UNDINE (2020)
FRONTALWATTE (2011) his film debut
from an unknown photo shoot we love
TRANSIT (2018)
with the makeup artist Roman Braunhofer (and presumably his own hair) behind the scenes on GREAT FREEDOM (2021)
a photoshoot at Berlinale in 2020
from his instagram
LOVE STEAKS (2013)
from his Instagram account
Photo by Marco Krüger
LUZIFER (2021)
LUZIFER (2021) in poster form
from his instagram account
from an unknown photoshoot
GREAT FREEDOM photo call at Cannes earlier this year
VICTORIA (2015)
phot of unknown origin
from his instagram account
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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.