News for Jun. 07, 2005

The right timing The right timing

6/07/05, 7:05 pm EST - Xoanon

Best known as the Nazi soldier who spares the life of a Jew in `The Pianist', German actor Thomas Kretschmann talks about his recent success in Hollywood and his love for watches. What's the main difference between German and US films? German-born actor Thomas Kretschmann has an answer. ``Germans build awesome cars. For Germans, one plus one is two. That makes sense and that's how they can build a car, by putting in this and that to make the car work. But if they put this and that in the film, it doesn't always work. They don't have passion. But I'm not like that. I don't feel very German, to be honest,'' said the actor on his recent visit to the Kingdom. [More]