Hans W. Geißendörfer
German film director and producer (born 1941) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hans W. Geißendörfer (born 6 April 1941 in Augsburg) is a German film director and producer.
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Born | Wilhelm Max Geißendörfer (1941-04-06) 6 April 1941 (age 83) |
Occupation | Film director |
Website | geissendoerfer-film.de |
Director of The Glass Cell (1978, starring Brigitte Fossey), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film,[1] 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.[2] In 1971 he directed the TV film Carlos, which starred Gottfried John and Anna Karina.[3] His 1976 film The Sternstein Manor was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.[4] In 1992 his film Gudrun was entered into the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.[5] His drama Snowland (2005, starring Julia Jentsch and Thomas Kretschmann) won the Special Grand Prize at the Montréal World Film Festival.
The German director Hana Geißendörfer is his daughter.