Oliver Hirschbiegel

Oliver Hirschbiegel was born on Dec 29, 1957 in Germany. Oliver Hirschbiegel's big-screen debut came with Kutya éji dala directed by Gábor Bódy in 1983, strarring Oliver. Oliver Hirschbiegel is known for Just an Ordinary Jew directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, Ben Becker stars as Emanuel Goldfarb and Siegfried Kernen as Ali, älterer jüdischer Mann. Oliver Hirschbiegel has got 18 awards and 21 nominations so far. The most recent award Oliver Hirschbiegel achieved is German Directors Award Metropolis. The upcoming new movie Oliver Hirschbiegel plays is Der Maler (Painter) which will be released on Mar 16, 2023.

Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1957. In his teens he left high school and worked as a cooker in a boat.Then he studied painting and graphism in the Academy of arts in Hamburg where he also started experimenting with video and photography. Those experimental movies attracted the attention of some producers of the German TV.Hirschbiegel became popular thanks to his tv movies (especially dramas and thrillers). In 2001 he shot his first movie for cinema: "Das Experiment" that won several awards in many festivals all around the world. That movie is an intense investigation of the aggressive behaviour in a simulated prison environment.His second movie, "Mein letzter Film", released in 2002, is a 90 minutes' monologue about a woman in her fifties who wants to re-start his life.In 2004 "Downfall" was released, his third movie, and till now his greatest success. "Downfall" is about the last 12 days of life of Adolf Hitler narrated out of the sight of her young secretary, Traudl Junge. That movie has stirred up much controversy because it portrays Hitler and the Nazis as human beings and not just as evil.Hirschbiegel has demonstrated in all his movies to be an specialist of dramas set in claustrophobic environments.