CHRISTIAN PETZOLD - Director & Screenwriter


Christian Petzold is one of the leading directors of New German cinema. The Ger-
man Film Critics Association has twice awarded him Best Film awards, for urban
drama 'Ghosts' and 'The State I'm In'. He was twice named Best Director at the
German Film Awards, for psychological drama 'Wolfsburg' and 'The State I'm In'.
His first fiction feature, 2000’s political drama 'The State I'm In', also won Best
Screenplay at Thessaloniki (Greece) and the Grand Prize at Valenciennes (France).


Petzold has also received much acclaim for the made-for-TV features 'Something To Remind Me'
(Toter Mann, 2002), 'Die Beischlafdiebin' (1998) and 'Cuba Libre' (1995). Born in 1960, Petzold
studied German Language and Theatre Studies at the Free University in Berlin, then graduated
from the German Film & Television Academy (DFFB) in 1994.



CHRISTIAN PETZOLD - Filmography


2007 -

YELLA

2005 -

GHOSTS (Gespenster)

2003

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WOLFSBURG

2002

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SOMETHING TO REMIND ME (Toter Mann)

2001

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THE STATE I AM IN (Die Innere Sicherheit)

1998

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DIE BEISCHLAFDIEBIN

1996

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CUBA LIBRE

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