Oskar Roehler

Last updated

Oskar Roehler
Oskar Roehler auf dem Erlanger Poetenfest 2015.jpg
Roehler in 2015
Born (1959-01-21) 21 January 1959 (age 64)
Starnberg, West Germany
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, journalist
Years active1980s–present

Oskar Roehler (born 21 January 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Starnberg, the son of writers Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others, Niklaus Schilling, Christoph Schlingensief and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s, he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the Deutscher Filmpreis. His 2010 film Jew Suss: Rise and Fall was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. [1]

Contents

Partial filmography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barry Levinson</span> American filmmaker, and actor

Barry Lee Levinson is an American filmmaker, comedian and actor. Levinson's best-known works are mid-budget comedy drama and drama films such as Diner (1982); The Natural (1984); Good Morning, Vietnam (1987); Bugsy (1991); and Wag the Dog (1997). He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988). In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexander Kluge</span> German author, philosopher, academic and film director

Alexander Kluge is a German author, philosopher, academic and film director.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johnnie To</span> Hong Kong film director

Johnnie To Kei-fung is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in the West he is best known for his action and crime movies, which have earned him critical respect and a cult following, which includes American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tobias Moretti</span> Austrian actor

Tobias Moretti is an Austrian actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Justus von Dohnányi</span>

Justus von Dohnányi is a German actor, best known for portraying Wilhelm Burgdorf in 2004 film Der Untergang.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Conrad Wiene</span>

Conrad Wiene was an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent films. He was the younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene.

<i>No Place to Go</i> (2000 film) 2000 film

No Place to Go is a German black-and-white film released in April 2000, directed by Oskar Roehler, starring Hannelore Elsner, about a suicidal middle-aged writer travelling around Germany at a time of personal crisis.

<i>Jud Süß</i> 1940 Nazi German film

Jud Süß is a 1940 Nazi German historical drama and propaganda film produced by Terra Film at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. It is considered one of the most antisemitic films of all time. The film was directed by Veit Harlan, who wrote the screenplay with Eberhard Wolfgang Möller and Ludwig Metzger. The leading roles were played by Ferdinand Marian and Harlan's wife Kristina Söderbaum; Werner Krauss and Heinrich George played key supporting roles.

<i>Jew Suss: Rise and Fall</i> 2010 film

Jew Suss: Rise and Fall is a 2010 German historical drama film directed by Oskar Roehler, dramatising the creative process behind the antisemitic Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß (1940). It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

Romana Carén is an actress, writer/director and vocal coach from Austria.

Wolfgang Schleif was a German film director, screenwriter and film editor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">52nd Berlin International Film Festival</span> Film festival

The 52nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 6 to 17, 2002. The festival opened with Heaven by Tom Tykwer. New print of Charlie Chaplin's 1940 American satirical dramedy film The Great Dictator was the closing film of the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to British–Irish film Bloody Sunday directed by Paul Greengrass and Japanese Animated film Spirited Away directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Franz Novotny</span> Austrian film director

Franz Novotny is an Austrian film producer, director and screenwriter who was born in Vienna. His 2003 film Yu was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Samuel Finzi</span> Bulgarian-German actor

Samuel Finzi is a Bulgarian-German actor. Since his start in the late 1980s, he has hundreds of film, television, and theatrical credits. Between 1993 and 2011, he received ten acting awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anna Unterberger</span> Italian actress

Anna Unterberger is an Italian actress from Bozen.

<i>Norman</i> (2016 film) 2016 film

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer is a 2016 American-Israeli political drama film directed and written by Joseph Cedar. The film stars Richard Gere and Lior Ashkenazi. Filming began on February 8, 2015, in New York City. The film played at the 2016 Telluride Film Festival and the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

Angst is a 2003 German drama film directed by Oskar Roehler, starring André Hennicke, Marie Bäumer and Vadim Glowna. It follows a stage director who goes through a personal crisis.

Tonio Arango is a German actor.

Martin Todsharow is a German composer, producer, and lecturer on music, since 2004 a professor at the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg.

References

  1. "Hollywood Reporter: Berlin festival unveils full lineup". hollywoodreporter.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. Retrieved 11 February 2010.