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20 people. Sort by List order. 1. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Director. Writer. Producer. The Lives of Others (2006) As the son of a Lufthansa manager, Henckel von Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels, where he passed his international high school diploma in 1991.
This is a list of notable German film directors related to the cinema of Germany . Contents: Top. 0–9. A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. L. M. N. P. R. S. U. Z. Alfred Abel. Willy Achsel. Herbert Achternbusch. Robert van Ackeren. Maren Ade. Percy Adlon. Fatih Akin. Bülent Akinci. Züli Aladağ. Hans Albin. Claudia von Alemann. Lexi Alexander.
27. März 2015 · A list of influential and talented directors from Germany, from the silent era to the present day. Learn about their styles, works, and contributions to world cinema, from M to Metropolis, from Run Lola Run to Das Boot.
- 10 Ernst Lubitsch
- W. Murnau
- 8 Leni Riefenstahl
- 7 Michael Haneke
- 6 Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- 5 Werner Herzog
- 4 Wim Wenders
- 3 Wolfgang Petersen
- 2 Roland Emmerich
- 1 Volker Schlöndorff
Ernst Lubitsch was a German-American director known for his comedies and period dramas. The Shop Around the Corner takes place in pre-World War II Budapest, where two employees from a leather goods shop are repulsed by each other, yet fall in love unknowingly and anonymously through the lettersthey write one another. In Madame Du Barry, the French ...
F.W. Murnau is most famous for his adaption of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the 1922 film Nosferatu. It was nearly destroyed due to a copyright infringement lawsuit with the Stoker estate, until global distribution and duplication made it one of the first cult films. The horror filmalso used Germany as the setting and the German people as characters, mak...
Leni Riefenstahl became not only popular as a female director, but infamous for her collaboration with Adolf Hitlerto make Nazi propaganda films. Before this controversial juncture in her career, Riefenstahl was introduced to the arts from an early age, taking up dancing before pursuing acting. She was inspired by the mountain film genre and went o...
Michael Haneke is an Austrian film director that focuses on social issues and how individuals are ostracized by modern society. In his psycho-sexual drama The Piano Teacher, a sexually repressed piano instructorlives with her mother in a co-dependent relationship. She takes advantage of her student's attraction towards her, with volatile results. A...
Rainer Werner Fassbinderwas one of the German filmmakers who led the New German Cinema movement. Prominent between the 1960s and 1980s, Fassbinder and his fellow directors sought to end the commercial dictates to make films and instead pursued art for art's sake on low budgets. The Merchant of Four Seasonsfollows a former police officer and veteran...
Werner Herzog is another pioneer of New German Cinema. His filmmaking process is improvisational and unconventional. Like his ambitious characters with obscure interests, Herzog puts his cast and crew into situations that encapsulate the story of the film. His movies have an air of mysticism, taking place in unfamiliar and foreign settings. Grizzly...
Wim Wenders is a fellow New German Cinema director with a distinct avant-garde style and sensibility. Wenders won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his romantic fantasy film Wings of Desire. In the film, an angel watches over the people of Berlin, listening to their thoughts and prayers. The heavenly guardian wishes to re...
Wolfgang Petersen has made notable classics, including the World War II epic Das Boot, The NeverEnding Story, and Air Force One. Petersen worked in television first, producing episodes of the popular German police procedural Tatort. His characters often confront danger, proving to themselves how resilient they are and what they can overcome. Peters...
Roland Emmerich is known as the "master of disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. Emmerich directed horror and science fiction films first after graduating from the University of Television and Film Munich. His most popular science fiction film is the alien invasion feature Independence Day. Emmerich ignored the traditional traits of Ge...
Volker Schlöndorff was a major figure in the New German Cinema movement. His black comedy, war drama The Tin Drumearned him a number of awards: an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, and the German Film Award for Best Fiction Film. It follows a precocious German child who remains in the body of a t...
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Also: Germany: People: By occupation: Filmmakers / Directors: Film directors. This category lists non-documentary film directors of German origin. For documentary directors, see Category:German documentary filmmakers. For producers, see Category:German film producers .
Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, Danish and English. His reputation, which was breathed to life by the French nouvelle vague ...
Top 100 German Directors. by minalex • Created 12 years ago • Modified 6 days ago. [1] The list also includes Austrian, Dutch, German-Swiss and Flemish directors. List activity. 7.2K views. 2 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 100 people. Sort by List order. 1. Robert Wiene. Writer. Director. Producer.
