The French actor Gérard Depardieu will receive this year’s Douglas Sirk award. This renowned award is bestowed by Filmfest Hamburg each year to honour a person for their achievements for film culture.
Albert Wiederspiel: “The choice of Gérard Depardieu for the Douglas Sirk award is not a decision for a French actor. Rather, it is the decision for one of the greatest actors of our time. Although steeped in a very French tradition, Gérard Depardieu has also long been a star around the world for a long time.”
Gérard Depardieu (born 1948) has played in over 150 films, ranging from the
cineastically high-class like “The Last Metro” or “Choice of Arms” (both 1980), or the drama „1900“ (1976) up to comedies like „ My Father the Hero“ (1991). Depardieu played the revolutionary “Danton” (1983), the artist Auguste Rodin in “Camille Claudel“ (1988), won a Golden Globe for his role as French immigrant Georges in “Green Card” (1990) and an Oscar nomination as long-nosed poet “Cyrano de Bergerac” and inspired millions around the world as Obelix in the Asterix- series („Asterix & Obelix vs. Caesar“,1998, and „Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra“,2000).


The Douglas Sirk award will be presented on 10 October 2006 at 7 p.m. in the
CinemaxX 1 prior to the premiere of QUAND J’ ÉTAIS CHANTEUR which is attended
by Gérard Depardieu und director Xavier Giannoli.

The 14th Filmfest Hamburg runs from 5-12 October 2006 in the following cinemas:
UFA-Palast Grindel, CinemaxX Dammtor, Abaton, 3001, and Metropolis.