Andreas Dresen
Andreas Dresen is a German director, born in Gera in 1963.
Growing up in the GDR, Andreas Dresen discovers his passion for film at an early age and starts making his first films as a teenager. He studied directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1986 to 1991 and has worked as a freelance writer and director since 1992. He rose to international fame with Grillpoint (2002), an improvised tragicomedy about two befriended couples. Together with the renowned screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, he worked on a total of three films (Summer in Berlin, Whiskey with Vodka, As We Were Dreaming). Cloud 9, with which he won the Prix Coup de Cœur in the Un Certain Regard section in Cannes in 2008, deals with the taboo subject of love and sexuality among elderly people. Three years later, Stopped on Track was honored with the Prix Un Certain Regard, the highest award in this section. Gundermann (2018), a portrait of the GDR musician of the same name, received six Lolas at the German Film Awards, including Best Film. The Berlinale-nominated film From Hilde, with Love, a historical drama about resistance fighter Hilde Coppi, is released in cinemas in 2024.
Silent Country (1992) - Mein unbekannter Ehemann (1994) - Andere Leben des Herrn Kreins (1994) - Changing Skins (1997) - Nightshapes (1999) - Policewoman (2000) - Grill Point (2002) - Willenbrock (2005) - Summer in Berlin (2005) - Cloud 9 (2008) - Whisky with vodka (2009) - Stopped on Track (2011) - As We Were Dreaming (2015) - Timm Thaler (2017) - Gundermann (2018) - Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush (2022) - From Hilde, With Love (2024)