Shell biography

The photo is Maximilian Shella - biography Maximilian Shella - Austrian actor, producer and director awarded prestigious awards in the film industry, including Oscar and Golden Globe prizes, for his outstanding main role in the film Nuremberg process. Childhood Maximilian Shella was born on December 8 in Vienna, becoming the youngest child in a family of four children.

His parents, representatives of the creative intelligentsia, were of foreign origin, which gave Maximilian multinational roots. German Ferdinand Shell, his father, originally from Switzerland, was engaged in literary activity, creating works in the genres of poetry and drama. Mother, Margaret Noe von Nordberg, was an Austrian actress. Despite the fact that the father was against the theatrical activities of children, fearing for their well -being, the influence of Margaras significantly formed their choice.

Maximilian recalled how his mother was preparing for roles, and already in three years he made his debut on the stage of the Vienna Theater. After the annexation of Austria, Nazi Germany in the year, the Shell family was forced to move to Switzerland, to Zurich to avoid persecution. In childhood, Maximilian did not dream of the theater; He was fond of reading, playing the piano and thought about the career of the artist, musician or playwright.

Perhaps the influence of his father encouraged him to write his first play at nine. After graduation, Maximilian briefly studied at the University of Zurich, where he also played football and entered the rowing team. Working as a freelance journalist, after the war he moved to Germany, where he studied philosophy and art history in Munich. Maximilian Shella returning to Zurich, he served in the army, then studied at the university again and spent six months at the University of Basel.

However, soon Maximilian lost interest in academic life, considering that scientific accuracy could interfere with creativity. Having abandoned writing, he began an acting career, the first steps of which were performances in the Basel Theater. The cinema career in the cinematographic debut of Maximilian Shella took place in the anti -war tape “Children, Mother and General”, where he embodied the image of a German officer from the Second World War who deserted from the battlefield.

This role became decisive for the acting profile of Shel, which later often returned to the topic of war, including participation in the film "Young Lions". This was his first appearance in Hollywood cinema.

Maximilian Shell in the film “Young Lions” in the year Maximilian returned to Germany and acted as Hamlet in a television performance based on Shakespeare's play. His performance by the Prince of Danish is recognized as one of the best, comparable to Lawrence Olivier's work. In the year, Shella was invited to the role of a lawyer in the Legal Drama of the Nuremberg process dedicated to the trial of Nazi criminals.

This role became key in his career. Critics noted his ability to convey the image of a person seeking to blame anyone in the Holocaust other than his clients. For this work, Shell was awarded Oscar and Golden Globe. In preparation for the role, the actor carefully studied many documents of the Nuremberg process. In the year, in the film “Pink Garden”, Shell depicted Aaron, a former prisoner of Auschwitz, and in the year the father of the Jewish family in the drama “Lean Baggage”.

Maximilian played a Jew, discouraged by the humility of his people in the person of cruelty, who, after the war, because of his crazy behavior, begins to suspect that he is a hiding Nazi criminal. To avoid roles exclusively in military films, Shell also embodied Vladimir Lenin, Peter the Great and the Egyptian Pharaoh, demonstrating the diversity of his acting. In the year, he played a ghost in the adaptation of the Ghost of the Opera Gaston Leru, where the image of his hero was close to the book prototype.

As a documentaryist, Shel created the film “Marlene” about Marlene Dietrich, who, despite the difficulties that have arisen, received a nomination for an Oscar. Dietrich initially agreed to shoot, but subsequently forbade the use of already captured material. One of Maximilian’s most personal and intimate works was the painting “My Sister Maria” about his sister Maria Shella.

For this film, brother and sister were awarded the German Bambi Television Award. His last film, the criminal drama "robbers", was released after his death in the year. They may be familiar.