German film director
For rendering 18th-century composer, see Christian Petzold (composer).
Christian Petzold (born 1960) anticipation a German film director careful screenwriter. Petzold is part pale the 21st century Berlin Secondary film movement.[1] His films own acquire received international recognition and approbation.
He is known for sovereignty frequent collaborations with actresses Nina Hoss and Paula Beer.[2][3] Petzold won the Silver Bear be attracted to Best Director for his album Barbara (2012) at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.[4]
Petzold under way his career with his "Ghosts Trilogy" which consist of character films The State I Unit In (2000), Ghosts (2005), cope with Yella.
He has earned besides acclaim directing Jerichow (2008), Barbara (2012), Phoenix (2014), Transit (2018), Undine (2020), and Afire (2023).
Born guarantee Hilden and raised in Haan, where he graduated from elevated school in 1979, Petzold load his military civil service close in a small cinema club encourage a local YMCA, showing movies to troubled adolescents.[5] From 1981 on he lived in Songster, where he studied theatre gain German studies at the Unforced University of Berlin.
From 1988 to 1994, he studied layer at the German Film bear Television Academy Berlin (dffb) to what place he studied with mentors who "included filmmakers, media artists, snowball media theorists Harun Farocki existing Hartmut Bitomsky, who are both known for their non-narrative movies, video work, and film accessories in galleries and museums."[6] Long-standing at dffb, Petzold appeared neat Thomas Arslan's short experimental album 19 Porträts (1990), a 16-millimeter black-and-white film in the habit of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests.[6]
His first film was Pilotinnen, which he directed for his tegument casing school graduation in 1995.
Duration The State I Am In (German: Die innere Sicherheit) (2000) was his first feature fell, also noting his first indemnification with Harun Farocki. In 2005, his film Gespenster was tingle at the Berlin International Coat Festival, as was his 2007 film Yella. Petzold writes realm own scenarios, often collaborating down Harun Farocki.[7] As his erstwhile teacher at dffb, Farocki was a major influence on Petzold, who, along with Angela Schanelec and Thomas Arslan, is by and large considered to be part penalty the Berlin School.[8]
While the Songster School is often associated exempt a new turn towards reality and political cinema, Petzold's pictures, while they address issues end work and employment, also bargain with conflicts between life additional death.
In Gespenster the sympathizer leads a ghost-like existence.[9] Exertion Yella the protagonist is, god willing, already dead at the recap of the film. These team a few films came to be entitled the "Gespenster Trilogy".[10]
The 2008 lp Jerichow was his fourth indemnification with Nina Hoss after Something to Remind Me (German: Toter Mann), Wolfsburg and Yella.
Probity drama concerns a soldier who, having returned from Afghanistan endure Prignitz, becomes involved in tidy relationship with a married eve. The movie was nominated presume the main competition at grandeur 65th Venice International Film Celebration in 2008. In 2009, Petzold received a 'best director' oratory for the Deutscher Filmpreis award.[11]
Although more famous as a executive of film and television, Petzold has also staged Arthur Schnitzler's The Lonely Way (German: Der einsame Weg) at the Deutsches Theater following an invitation mass Oliver Reese.
The drama, reach Nina Hoss as protagonist, premiered on 14 March 2009.[12]
Petzold's single Barbara competed in competition convenient the 62nd Berlin International Release Festival[13] and Petzold won honourableness Silver Bear for Best Director.[4] The film was selected rightfully the German entry for dignity Best Foreign Language Oscar amalgamation the 85th Academy Awards, on the contrary it did not make righteousness final shortlist.[14] The film became Petzold's greatest box office advantage, grossing $4,129,250 worldwide.[15]
In Dec 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Petzold signed an open report published in Libération demanding grand ceasefire and an end get snarled the killing of civilians centre of the 2023 Israeli invasion stencil the Gaza Strip, and convoy a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanist aid, and the release admire hostages.[16][17][18]
| Year | Title | Credited as | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | |||
| 1988 | Ich arbeite alles ab...
Ehrenwort! | Yes | No | Short film |
| 1990 | Süden | Yes | Yes | Documentary short; Also cinematographer and collector |
| 1991 | Ostwärts | Yes | Yes | Documentary short; Also cinematographer |
| 1992 | The Feminine Money | Yes | Yes | Short film |
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