Anno Saul

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Anno Saul (born 14 November 1963) is a German screenwriter and film director. [1]

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Biography

Born in Bonn, West Germany, the son of a physician, Saul studied at the Peter-Joerres-Gymnasium in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and afterwards, graduating from the Munich School of Philosophy, and then, from 1985 to 1990, filmed a feature film at the University of Television and Film Munich. In 1987, he created a Bayerischer Rundfunk teleplay.

In 1991, Saul received the Max Ophüls film festival prize for the film Unter Freunden. After several television films, he filmed his feature film debut, Grüne Wüste ("Green Desert"), in 1998 with Martina Gedeck. After his television film Novizin, he directed his second feature film, Kebab Connection , based on a book by Fatih Akin, Ruth Thoma and Jan Berger. In 2006, he directed the movie Where Is Fred? with Til Schweiger, Jürgen Vogel, Christoph Maria Herbst, and Alexandra Maria Lara. This was followed in 2009 by the mystery thriller The Door with Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, and Thomas Thieme. [2] In 2013, he also directed the comedy Therapy Crashers with Marie Bäumer, Milan Peschel, Fahri Yardım, and Josefine Preuß.

Saul was a lecturer at the Internationale Filmschule Köln. Since 2010, he has been a full member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Filmakademie in the field of directing. He lives in Berlin.

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Filmography

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Saul in 2012

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