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Anno Saul (born 14 November 1963) is a German screenwriter and film director.

Biography

Born in

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ru ...

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, the son of a physician, Saul studied at the Peter-Joerres-Gymnasium in

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. Formed by the merging of the ...

and afterwards, graduating from the Munich School of Philosophy, and then, from 1985 to 1990, filmed a feature film at the

University of Television and Film Munich The University of Television and Film Munich (German: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, short: HFF Munich) is a publicly funded film school in Munich, Germany. The school was established in 1966 by decree of the Bavarian government. T ...

. In 1987, he created a

Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...

teleplay. In 1991, Saul received the Max Ophüls film festival prize with the film ''Unter Freunden''. After several television films, he filmed his feature film debut, ''Grüne Wüste'' ("Green Desert"), in 1998 with

Martina Gedeck Martina Gedeck (; born 14 September 1961) is a German actress. She came to broader, international attention due to her roles in films such as '' Mostly Martha'' (2001), ''The Lives of Others'' (2006), and '' The Baader Meinhof Complex'' (2008). S ...

. After his television film ''Novizin'', he directed his second feature film, ''

Kebab Connection ''Kebab Connection'' is a 2004 German-Turkish comedy film with some slapstick that is set in Hamburg and directed by Anno Saul. Plot Ibo (Denis Moschitto) is a young Turkish-German man who is an aspiring filmmaker. A clash of cultures and pre-p ...

'', based on a book by

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, Ruth Thoma and Jan Berger. In 2006, he directed the movie '' Where Is Fred?'' with

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, and

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. This was followed in 2009 by the mystery thriller '' The Door'' with

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, and

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. In 2013, he also directed the comedy ''Irre sind männlich'' with

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, Fahri Yardım, and

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. Saul was a lecturer at the

Internationale Filmschule Köln The ifs internationale filmschule köln gmbh (''international film school cologne'') is a privately funded film school in Cologne, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany. The film school was founded by Filmstiftung NRW. In the German film school ranki ...

. Since 2010, he has been a full member of the board of directors of the

Deutsche Filmakademie The Deutsche Filmakademie is an independently run organization with a focus on filmmaking in Germany. It was founded in 2003 in Berlin as a way to provide native filmmakers a forum for discussion and a way to promote the reputation of German c ...

in the field of directing. He lives in

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Awards

* 1991: Max-Ophüls-Preis for ''Unter Freunden'' * Publikumspreis at the

Cinequest Film Festival The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It is ...

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, United States, for ''Grüne Wüste'' * 2010: Hauptpreis "Best Picture" at the Tromsoe Int. Film Festival for ''The Door'' * 2010: "Le Grand Prix" at the

Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer The Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer (formerly Fantastic'Arts, from 1994 to 2008) is an international festival of horror and science fiction films which has been held each year since 1994 in Gérardmer in the Vosges, Franc ...

for ''The Door'' * 2010: The "Silver Melias" at the

Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), previously named Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (french: Festival international du film fantastique de Bruxelles, nl, Internationaal Festival van de Fantastische Fil ...

for ''The Door''

Filmography

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* 1990: ''Unter Freunden'' (short) * 1996: ''Und morgen fängt das Leben an'' (TV film) * 1997: ''Alte Liebe, alte Sünde'' (TV film) * 1998: ''Blind Date – Flirt mit Folgen'' (TV film) * 1998: ''Zur Zeit zu zweit'' (TV film) * 1999: ''Grüne Wüste'' * 2002: ''Die Novizin'' (TV film) * 2005: ''

'' * 2006: '' Where Is Fred?'' * 2007–2014: ''

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'' (TV series, 7 episodes, including pilot) * 2009: '' The Door'' * 2011–2015: ''Reiff für die Insel'' (TV series, 3 episodes, including pilot) * 2014: ''Irre sind männlich'' * 2013–2018: ''Nord Nord Mord'' (TV series, 5 episodes) * 2016–2017: ''München Mord'' (TV series, 3 episodes) * 2019: ''

Charité The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine) is one of Europe's largest university hospitals, affiliated with Humboldt University and Free University Berlin. With numerous Collaborative Research C ...

'' (TV series, 6 episodes)

External links

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