"Don't show me anything!"
The movie actor Axel Neumann classically learned his profession on stage. Learning by doing. When working for films today, he benefits from the fact that his first professional experience happened to be on a small stage. An very close contact with the audience makes similar demands on the actor as working with the film camera.

Acting according to this motto, he was awarded the German Comedy Film Award 2007 - Nina Hagen and Axel Neumann in "7 Dwarfs - The Forest is not Enough"

"Don't show me anything, it's just for a penny!" This is what the Lithuanian film director Sharunas Bartas always said. In his film "Freedom", which received an award at the Film Festival in Venice in 2000, Axel Neumann played his first leading part. And he learned an important lesson in art: "Don't act, be!"

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