Ivan Desny

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Ivan Desny (actually Russian Иван Николаевич Десницкий , Iwan Nikolajewitsch Desnizki ; born December 28, 1922 in Beijing , then Republic of China ; † April 13, 2002 in Ascona , Switzerland ) was a French - German actor of Russian-Swedish origin.

Desny, top left, on a 1960 movie poster

Life

Desny was born in Beijing in 1922 as the child of a Russian who worked as an embassy secretary at the French embassy, ​​and a Swede. He spent his early youth in Tehran , Washington, DC , Paris and Brisbane . He came to France in 1926 and later studied law. During the Second World War Desny was sent to a German labor camp. After the war he attended a diplomatic school. He appeared on a student stage, was discovered by Pierre Fresnay and committed to the theater. From the end of the 1940s Desny was mainly only active in film. He played prominent roles in Bernhard Wicki's Die Eroberung der Zitadelle (1977) and in Rainer W. Fassbinder's Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979).

In 1956 and 1957 he played the main male role in the films by Falk Harnack , Anastasia, the last daughter of the Tsar and Wie ein Sturmwind . His partner in both films was Lilli Palmer . Later he turned u. a. 1974 Das Gewissen ( Touch Me Not ) with Lee Remick , Michael Hinz , Ingrid Garbo and 1993 Tatort - Dangerous Friendship . In the early crime scene thrillers with Sieghardt Rupp as Cologne customs investigator Kressin , he played the mysterious Mr. Sievers, who was behind almost all the crimes of the Kressin episodes, but could never be caught. In 1980 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.

In 2002 Desny came under fire for appearing in a newspaper article as a supposedly cured cancer patient, although he was healthy. The drug Galavit , which is not approved in Germany and is highly controversial as an anti-cancer drug, was touted by Desny as a miracle cure against cancer .

Grave of Ivan Desnys and his wife in the Ascona cemetery

Desny died on April 13, 2002 of pneumonia . His urn was buried in the municipal cemetery of Ascona , Canton Ticino .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article in Stern about Galavit
  2. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Ivan Desny
personal data
SURNAME Desny, Ivan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Desnitzky, Ivan Nikolai; Десницкий, Иван Николаевич (Russian birth name); Desnizki, Iwan Nikolajewitsch (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Beijing , Republic of China
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2002
Place of death Ascona , Switzerland