Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.
Actor: Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz played the angel Damiel in Wings of Desire, listening to the thoughts of Berliners and choosing to become mortal, and it is among the gentlest performances in European cinema.
Downfall gives him Hitler in the final days, a performance that has been parodied into meaninglessness by internet subtitle jokes and which is genuinely extraordinary. He held the Iffland-Ring, awarded to the most significant German-speaking actor, until his death.
