European Film Awards 2023: Sandra Hülser at her peak

Even in Cannes, many were fascinated by this ambivalent woman named Sandra: a self-confident, successful German writer lives in a chalet in the French Alps with her husband and their eleven-year-old son and is suddenly suspected of murdering her husband. The French drama “Anatomy of a Case,” which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is about this Sandra. Director Justine Triet and her co-author Arthur Harari wrote the role of Sandra specifically for the German actress Sandra Hülser; For this, Hülser has now been awarded the European Film Prize for Best Actress. What’s fascinating about this character Sandra, Sandra Hülser explained in an interview with “nd”, is “that she claims a freedom for herself that I would also like to take, but I don’t always dare to do.”

Hülser, who was born in 1978 in Suhl, Thuringia and lives in Leipzig, only discovered that she wanted to become an actress when she was 16 or 17 years old. “Before, I wanted to be everything possible: an archaeologist, a veterinarian, a midwife, a teacher,” said Hülser to “nd”. After graduating from high school, she went to the renowned Ernst Busch drama school in Berlin. “I started with theater, I still have no film training, but I also make films because it works well.” Many people have known that her films work more than well, at least since 2016. She did that with her role in Maren Ade’s drama “Toni Erdmann” received a lot of international attention. She has won numerous awards to date; It is even believed that she now has a good chance of winning an Oscar. But she doesn’t like this result-oriented or product-oriented way of thinking or working, Hülser told the “nd”. »I just find processes interesting.«

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