IM WESTEN NICHTS NEUES
Germany
Synopsis
Director's Biography
Berger was born in 1970 in Wolfsburg, Germany. He completed his studies in directing at the NYU in New York in 1994. He then gained initial professional experience with the American independent production company Good Machine, including on the movies of Ang Lee and Todd Haynes. In 1997, he took on his debut screenplay GOMEZ: HEADS OR TAILS. This was followed shortly after by his first theatrical motion picture, which was the acclaimed rom-com FEMALE2 SEEKS HAPPY END (2000) starring Ben Becker and Isabella Parkinson. After that, Berger first worked primarily for TV, creating multiple episodes of Tatort, Schimanski and KDD. In 2012, his TV movie A GOOD SUMMER was awarded the Grimme Award.
His movie JACK (2014) was invited to the Berlinale and nominated in three categories for the German Film Award in 2015 (Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best movie). Berger has won the Silver German Film Award for Best Feature Movie, the Metropolis German Director’s Award for Best Director and Best Production, a Bavarian Film Award and audience awards at numerous movie festivals.
His eight-part TV series DEUTSCHLAND 83 made premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2015 and won the Best International Drama Series at the renowned Séries Mania Festival in France. He also won the Metropolis German Director’s Award once again. The series received the Golden Camera for Best Series, a Grimme Award and nominations in four categories at the German Television Awards. DEUTSCHLAND 83 was the first German series sold in the USA, as well as several other countries.
In 2017, Edward Berger was voted one of “Ten Europeans To Watch” at the Berlinale by Variety.
Cast & Crew
Directed by: Edward Berger
Written by: Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
Produced by: Malte Grunert, Daniel Dreifuss, Edward Berger
Cinematography: James Friend
Editing: Sven Budelmann
Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck
Costume Design: Lisy Christl
Make-Up & Hair: Heike Merker
Original Score: Volker Bertelmann
Sound: Lars Ginzel, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Viktor Prášil
Visual Effects: Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank
Casting: Simone Bär
Cast: Felix Kammerer (Paul Bäumer), Albrecht Abraham Schuch (Stanislaus Katczinsky), Aaron Hilmer (Albert Kopp), Moritz Klaus (Franz Müller), Edin Hasanovic (Tjaden Stackfleet), Daniel Brühl (Matthias Erzberger), Thibault de Montalembert (General Ferdinand Foch), Devid Striesow (General Friedrichs)
Nominations and Awards
- European Make-Up & Hair 2022
- European Visual Effects 2022
- Feature Film Selection 2022