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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is an Academy Award-winning Austrian-German director and screenwriter. Born in Cologne in 1973, Florian grew up in New York, Brussels, Frankfurt and West Berlin. He studied Russian in St. Petersburg, and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford. In 1996, he began his career in film as an intern for Richard Attenborough and then went on to study at the University of Television and Film in Munich. In 2006, his first feature film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) won the European Film Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Screenplay and then on February 25, 2007 von Donnersmarck won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Charles Aldrich 09/02/2007 07:16 AM Report
The film 'The lives of others' deals with writing a book on suicide because of conditions. In the US the child support program has 16,000 noncustodial fathers commit suicide each year. Mothers and children also commit suicide at a far greater rate than the rest of the population. Would Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck be interested in writing a book or making a movie on this situation?
Wade Whitmer 08/10/2007 03:18 PM Report
We need more screenwriters and directors like Donnersmarck, who dare to, as he says, not understimate the audience. The movie is excellent - carefully searching for revealing a soul in the main characters. I hope his next film takes him less than six years to deliver.
Santiago 07/03/2007 01:43 AM Report
More von Donnersmarck, awesome.