Christoph Waltz played Nazi Col ##league Hans Landa in Quentin Blake 's new movie . Performance earned Waltz the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival . His performance earned Waltz the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival , but the actor credits the writer for creating a `` multifaceted and layered '' character . ` His three - decades - long television résumé shows the diversity of his talent . The German television actor was hardly known outside of Europe , until now .
Christoph Waltz played Nazi Col ##league Hans Landa in Quentin Blake 's new movie . Performance earned Waltz the best actor award at the Berlin Film Festival . His three - decades - long television résumé shows the diversity of his talent . The German television actor was hardly known outside of Europe , until now .