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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Florian Henkel von Donnersmark - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor.
Born May 2, 1973, Cologne, Germany - German film director, screenwriter, producer and editor.
He spent his childhood and adolescence in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt and Brussels.
In 1977, Florian saw his first ever motion picture at the New York Museum of Modern Art. Instead of the expected "Doctor Dolittle", the boy saw the German melodrama "Variety". The director remembers this experience as his first interest in cinema.
In 1991 he studied Russian language and literature in Leningrad, specializing in “teacher of Russian as a foreign language”. From 1993 to 1996 he received degrees in political science, philosophy and economics at the University of Oxford. Practiced with director Lord Richard Attenborough. Then he entered the University of Television and Film in Munich, where such different directors as Wim Wenders and Roland Emmerich received their education.
Von Donnersmark's first feature film "Das Leben der Anderen" (The Lives of Others), on which he worked for three years, including screenplay, production and final editing, won the 2006 European Academy Award for Best Film , Best Actor and Best Screenplay. This film won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Best Foreign Film Award, was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film on February 25, 2007.
His next film, The Tourist, which Donnersmark created in 11 months (explaining in an interview with Charlie Rose his desire to take a break from writing a tough suicide novel) was a light romantic thriller starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. The film received three Golden Globe nominations - Best Musical or Comedy, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. The film also received 3 Teen Choice Awards nominations (Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Actress), two of which won, as well as a Redbox Movie Award for Most Popular Drama of 2011. At the moment, the picture has grossed about 280 million US dollars in worldwide film distribution, thanks to which it was named "international hit" by The Hollywood Reporter.
In 2007, Donnersmark became one of 115 new members invited to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
