Film festival
Franz Rogowski and screaming fans: “Seems absurd to me”
Franz Rogowski came to the Venice Film Festival for the competition film “Lubo”. He also has unexpected experiences there.
Rogowski can be seen at the Venice Film Festival in the film “Lubo” directed by Giorgio Diritti. He plays a nomad and street artist from Graubünden who is drafted into the Swiss army in 1939 and whose family is then torn away from him. He is a Yenisch – a member of an ethnic group of former traveling craftsmen who were repeatedly excluded and discriminated against.
For his role, Rogowski learned, among other things, the Yenish language and Swiss German; he also speaks Italian in the film. He also taught himself to play the harmonica and the Styrian harmonica. The many different languages that Lubo speaks were what attracted him to the role. “This figure has demanded a lot of exciting things from me, in a sporting sense, challenging things,” said Rogowski.
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