Ralph Fiennes Festival FEST. He filmed his version of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. Fiennes reunited with Kathryn Bigelow for her Iraq War film "The Hurt Locker," released in 2009, appearing as an English Private Military Contractor. They had previously worked together on "Strange Days" (1995). In April 2010, he played Hades in "Clash of the Titans", a remake of the 1981 film of the same name. In 2012, he starred in the twenty-third James Bond film, "Skyfall," directed by Sam Mendes. He will replace Dame Judi Dench as M in future Bond films. Dench had also starred alongside
Lothar Mendes work at Gaumont-British Pictures, directing films with Sir Michael Balcon producing. Under that banner, he directed "Jew Süss" (1934) starring one of Germany's most famous emigre actors, Conrad Veidt. Mendes' "Jew Suss" is not to be confused with the later Nazi film of the same title (1940) which is a Reich-made, virulently anti-Semitic film that deliberately contorted the exiled German-Jewish writer, Lion Feuchtwanger's original novel of the same name, on which Mendes' film was based. Mendes' 1934 film version of Feuchtwanger's novel received strong notices at the time, and was considered an important and early film in exposing the origins