Oskar Roehler (born 21 January 1959) is a German film director, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in

Starnberg Starnberg is a Town#Germany, town in Bavaria, Germany, some southwest of Munich. It is at the north end of Lake Starnberg, in the heart of the "Five Lakes Country", and serves as capital of the Starnberg (district), district of Starnberg. Recor ...

, the son of writers

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and Klaus Roehler. Since the mid-1980s, he has been working as a screenwriter, for, among others,

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and Mark Schlichter. Since the early 1990s, he has also been working as a film director. For his film No Place to Go he won the

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. His 2010 film '' Jew Suss: Rise and Fall'' was nominated for the

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at the

60th Berlin International Film Festival The 60th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 21 February 2010, with Werner Herzog as president of the jury. The opening film of the festival was Chinese director Wang Quan'an's romantic drama '' Apart Together'', in com ...

Partial filmography

* ' (1995) * ''Silvester Countdown'' (1997) * ''Gierig'' (1999) * ''Latin Lover'' (1999, TV film) * '' No Place to Go'' (2000) * ''Suck My Dick'' (2001) * ' (2002, TV film) * ''

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'' (2003) * ''

Agnes and His Brothers ''Agnes and His Brothers'' () is a 2004 film directed by Oskar Roehler. Plot Three very different siblings: Hans-Jörg, a librarian who is a sex addict; Werner, a politician in a troubled marriage with a son who enjoys discrediting his father ...

'' (2004) * '' The Elementary Particles'' (2006) * ''

Lulu and Jimi ''Lulu and Jimi'' is a 2009 drama film directed by Oskar Roehler. It is about the relationship between Lulu, a rich German girl and Jimi, a black man, and takes place in 1950s Germany. Plot Lulu, a well-off German girl, falls in love with Jimi ...

'' (2009) * '' Jew Suss: Rise and Fall'' (2010) * ''

Sources of Life ''Sources of Life'' () is a 2013 German film directed by Oskar Roehler. Cast * Jürgen Vogel as Erich Freytag * Moritz Bleibtreu as Klaus Freytag * Kostja Ullmann as Young Klaus Freitag * Meret Becker as Elisabeth Freytag * Sonja Kirchberger ...

'' (2013) * ''Punk Berlin 1982'' (2015) * '' Subs'' (2017) * ''

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'' (2020)

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* 1959 births Film directors from Bavaria Living people People from Starnberg {{Germany-film-director-stub