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Die Wand

Die Wand (The Wall) is a 2012 Austrian-German drama directed by Julian Roman Pölsler, adapted from Marlen Haushofer's 1963 novel, starring Martina Gedeck as a woman trapped behind an invisible wall in the Alps, screened at Berlinale Panorama 2012.

Die Wandlung

Die Wandlung (The Transformation) was a monthly cultural and political journal published in Heidelberg from 1945 to 1949, edited by Dolf Sternberger with Karl Jaspers, Werner Krauss, and Alfred Weber.

Die Weißen Blätter

Die Weißen Blätter, German for "The White Sheets," was a German-language literary monthly published from 1913 to 1921 and a leading journal of Expressionism and wartime pacifist opposition.

Die Welt ist schön

Die Welt ist schön (The World Is Beautiful) is a 1928 photobook by the German photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, collecting 100 black-and-white photographs and defining New Objectivity photography in Weimar Germany.

Die Weltbühne

Die Weltbühne ("The World Stage") was a German weekly journal of politics, culture, and economics, published in Berlin from 1918 to 1933 and edited by Carl von Ossietzky.

Die with a Smile

Die with a Smile: 2024 soft rock duet ballad by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, Interscope; five non-consecutive weeks at Hot 100 No. 1, fastest to one billion Spotify streams, later on Mayhem.

Die wunderbaren Jahre

Die wunderbaren Jahre is a 1976 prose collection by Reiner Kunze depicting everyday repression of young people in East Germany; banned there, it topped the West German bestseller list.

Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet

Die Ysterkoei Moet Sweet (The iron cow must sweat) is the 1964 debut poetry collection of South African writer and painter Breyten Breytenbach, published by Perskor.

Die, My Love

Die, My Love (Matate, amor, 2012) is Ariana Harwicz's debut novel about an unnamed woman in rural France undone by marriage and motherhood; longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize and adapted into Lynne Ramsay's 2025 Cannes film starring Jennifer Lawrence.

Diedrich Bader

Diedrich Bader (Karl Diedrich Bader, born 1966) is an American actor and voice actor, known as Oswald on The Drew Carey Show, Lawrence in Office Space, Rex in Napoleon Dynamite, and Batman in Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Harley Quinn.

Diegesis (διήγησις)

Diegesis (διήγησις), Greek for narration: in Plato's Republic the mode of telling versus mimesis (showing); in Genette and film studies, the storyworld, with diegetic versus extradiegetic elements such as music.

Diego Andres Rodriguez

Diego Andres Rodriguez, also credited as Diego Rodriguez, is an American actor and writer from McAllen, Texas, a University of Michigan BFA musical theatre graduate (2024) who made his Broadway debut as Artie and understudy Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (2024-2025) and his West End debut as Che in Evita at the London Palladium (2025), earning an Olivier Award nomination.

Diego Boneta

Diego Boneta, full name Diego Andrés González Boneta, Mexican actor, singer, producer, writer; star of Rock of Ages and Luis Miguel: The Series; founder of Three Amigos with Amazon first-look deal; debut novelist.

Diego de Valadés

Diego de Valadés (1533–1582) was a Franciscan friar, writer, and polyglot of New Spain, known for the Rhetorica christiana, a 1579 Latin treatise on preaching illustrated with etchings.

Diego e Victor Hugo (group)

Diego e Victor Hugo, also billed Diego & Victor Hugo, is a Brazilian sertanejo duo formed in 2008 in Uberlândia, best known for the hits 'Facas' and 'Tubarões'.

Diego Frazão Torquato

Diego Frazão Torquato, 'Diego do Violino' (1997–2010), Brazilian violinist of Rio's AfroReggae String Orchestra, famous for the photo of him weeping at his teacher Evandro João da Silva's 2009 funeral; died of leukemia at 12.

Diego Klattenhoff

Diego Klattenhoff (born 1979, French River, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian actor known as Mike Faber in Homeland and FBI Agent Donald Ressler in The Blacklist (2013-2023), plus Mean Girls and Pacific Rim.

Diego Klein

Diego Klein is a Mexican actor who trained in Spain before returning to Mexico in 2019. He is known for his roles in Mi secreto and Con esa misma mirada.

Diego Luna

Diego Luna (Diego Dionisio Luna Alexander, born 1979) is a Mexican actor, director, and producer, star of Y Tu Mamá También, Rogue One, and Andor, and director of Abel and Cesar Chavez.

Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera (1886–1957), Mexican muralist and founder of the Mexican mural movement; los tres grandes with Orozco and Siqueiros; SEP, Chapingo, National Palace, Detroit Industry murals; Rockefeller Center's Man at the Crossroads destroyed over its Lenin portrait.

Diego Vásquez (actor)

Diego Vásquez (Diego Javier Vásquez), born 1964 in Ibagué, Colombia, is a Colombian actor and screenwriter, a former geologist, known for villain roles in telenovelas, El Chapo, Leandro Díaz, and as José Arcadio Buendía in Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024), earning a 2025 International Emmy nomination.

Diego Velázquez

Diego Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, 1599–1660), Spanish Baroque painter of Seville, court painter to Philip IV from 1623, creator of Las Meninas (1656), trained under Francisco Pacheco and made two Italian journeys.

Diem Brown

Diem Brown (1980–2014), American reality TV personality and entertainment reporter; competed in eight seasons of MTV's The Challenge, publicly battled ovarian cancer, and founded the patient support site MedGift.

Dieric Bouts

Dieric Bouts (c. 1410/1420–1475) was an early Netherlandish painter of Leuven, known for the Altarpiece of the Last Supper and the Justice of Emperor Otto III panels.

Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley (born 1975, Phoenix) is an American country singer-songwriter known for blending country with bluegrass. Debut single "What Was I Thinkin'" (2003) hit No. 1; 22 No. 1 singles, Grand Ole Opry member since 2005, albums through Broken Branches (2025).

Diés Iraé

Diés Iraé (ഡീയസ് ഈറേ), Latin for Day of Wrath, is a 2025 Malayalam horror thriller written and directed by Rahul Sadasivan, starring Pranav Mohanlal as Rohan, haunted after a classmate's suicide; released 31 October 2025, biggest A-rated Malayalam opener.

Diesel (2025 film)

Diesel (டீசல்) is a 2025 Tamil action thriller directed by Shanmugam Muthusamy, starring Harish Kalyan as a North Chennai diesel smuggler opposite Vinay Rai; released October 17, 2025, streaming on Aha Tamil and Sun NXT from November 21, 2025.

Diesel Brothers

Diesel Brothers is a Discovery Channel reality series (2016–2022) starring David 'Heavy D' Sparks and 'Diesel Dave' Kiley, Utah truck builders known for custom diesel builds, giveaways, and a Clean Air Act emissions-tampering lawsuit.

Diesel La Torraca

Diesel La Torraca (born 2011, Australia) is an Australian child actor known as Austin Miller in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia, Felix in Little Monsters, Isaiah in La Brea, and roles in Lambs of God and Unsung Hero.

Dieselpunk

Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic science fiction and visual art genre blending the technology, aesthetics, and politics of the interwar and World War II era with speculative elements.