Occupation Film director Children Hana Geissendorfer | Website geissendoerfer-film.de | |
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Full Name Wilhelm Max Geißendörfer Born 6 April 1941 (age 75) ( 1941-04-06 ) Augsburg, Bavaria Awards German Film Award for Best Feature Film, German Film Award for Best New Direction Nominations Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Movies and TV shows Lindenstraße, The Magic Mountain, Schneeland, Ruby Red, The Glass Cell Similar Marie‑Luise Marjan, Joachim Hermann Luger, Georg Uecker, Ludwig Haas, Moritz A Sachs | ||
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Hans W. Geißendörfer (born 6 April 1941 in Augsburg) is a German film director and producer.
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Director of The Glass Cell (1978, starring Brigitte Fossey), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and 16 other films (The Wild Duck starring Jean Seberg; The Magic Mountain starring Rod Steiger; Justice), he is creator of TV-Series Lindenstraße (since 1985).
In 1970, Geißendörfer won the Film Award in Gold at the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best New Direction for his first film Jonathan. In 1971 he directed the TV film Carlos, which starred Gottfried John and Anna Karina. His 1976 film The Sternstein Manor was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1992 his film Gudrun was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. His drama Snowland (2005, starring Julia Jentsch and Thomas Kretschmann) won the Special Grand Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival.
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