| rdfs:comment | - Justus von Dohnányi (born December 2, 1960) is a German actor. Born in Lübeck, he studied acting in Hamburg. He appeared on the legitimate stage in Hamburg, Zurich, and Frankfurt before working in television, where he appeared in several television movies. He appeared in the 2004 movie Downfall as General Wilhelm Burgdorf. In that film's most famous scene, von Dohnányi was one of the four actors (the other three were Dieter Mann, Christian Redl and Rolf Kanies) who were detained in Bruno Ganz's briefing room for not ordering Steiner's attack.
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| abstract | - Justus von Dohnányi (born December 2, 1960) is a German actor. Born in Lübeck, he studied acting in Hamburg. He appeared on the legitimate stage in Hamburg, Zurich, and Frankfurt before working in television, where he appeared in several television movies. He appeared in the 2004 movie Downfall as General Wilhelm Burgdorf. In that film's most famous scene, von Dohnányi was one of the four actors (the other three were Dieter Mann, Christian Redl and Rolf Kanies) who were detained in Bruno Ganz's briefing room for not ordering Steiner's attack. He had a prominent role in the 2001 movie The Experiment as a prison guard, opposite Moritz Bleibtreu and Christian Berkel, who also appeared in Downfall. He received the 2001 Lola for Best Supporting Actor. He was seen on the PBS presentation of Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000) as well as in the James Bond movie The World is Not Enough (1999) as Capitan Nikoli. Von Dohnányi is the son of German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi and a member of the well-known Dohnányi family. His grandfather was Hans von Dohnányi, German jurist and German resistance fighter and his great-uncle was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and a co-founder of the Confessing Church, both of whom were executed by the Third Reich.
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