Oliver Hirschbiegel
☼ Né le 29 mars 1957, à Hamburg, Germany
Biographie There he attended the Waldorf school. Afterwards, his wanderlust drove him to sea, where he worked as a kitchen boy. Returning to Hamburg, Hirschbiegel enrolled at the local University of the Arts for Graphics and Painting. Hirschbiegel developed his artistic activities in the areas of photography and film. He founded the video magazine "Infermental" with director Gabor Gody. In addition, Hirschbiegel also worked as an actor: he took on roles in the TV productions "Rosemaries Wedding" (1985) and "Losberg" (1986). The television film "The Go! Project" marked his debut as a television director and author in 1986. Hirschbiegel received the Grimme Prize for the "crime scene" crime thriller "Kinderspiel" (1992). Hirschbiegel subsequently made a name for himself as the director of the crime series "Kommissar Rex", of which he appeared in 14 episodes for Sat.1 from 1993 to 1996. In 1996 he shone in the ARD series "Wilde Herzen" with the thriller "Trickser", for which he received a Grimme Special Prize. Hirschbiegel was awarded the Bavarian Television Prize in 1999 for his film "Todfeinde - The Wrong Decision" (1998). Finally, Hirschbiegel's film debut followed in 2001: Moritz Bleibtreu played the main role in "The Experiment", with which the director showed the moral manipulability and aggression of the human character based on a social psychological experiment carried ou  (cliquez pour ouvrir) t in the USA in 1971. For this film he received the Bavarian Film Prize and an Oscar nomination in 2002. In 2001 he received the directing award at the World Film Festival in Montreal for "The Experiment". Another television film, "My Last Film," which Hirschbiegel directed, followed in 2001. In 2004, Hirschbiegel's directing work in the Adolf Hitler film adaptation "Downfall" caused a great stir. In the film, produced by Bernd Eichinger, Bruno Ganz plays an Adolf Hitler full of human weaknesses in the midst of the final fighting of the Second World War in Berlin, who hardly corresponds to the usual image of the Holocaust perpetrator. Eichinger also wrote the screenplay for the film, based on the bestseller of the same name by Joachim Fest and the notes of Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge ("Until the Last Hour", 2002) edited by Melissa Müller. By breaking a taboo, Hirschbiegel and Eichinger caused great excitement and intense debates in the German cultural world about the meaning and purpose of "humanizing" the historical Hitler figure. Overall, the production received positive reactions in the international film world. Together with Bruno Ganz and producer Bernd Eichinger, the director received the Bambi for the best German film in autumn 2004, for which "Downfall" was awarded. At the 2005 Academy Awards, "Downfall" was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. In April 2005, "Downfall" became the most successful German film to date in Great Britain, where it grossed 1.3 million pounds in its first month. Hirschbiegel realized another very unusual project in 2006 with "An Ordinary Jew". The piece is a one-man show, carried by the self-confident and sometimes cynical reflections of Ben Becker. The brave decision to bring a 90-minute monologue to cinemas was appreciated by audiences and critics alike. In 2007 he was a jury member of the 3rd Zurich Film Festival chaired by US producer Albert S. Ruddy. The film "Five Minutes of Heaven" was released in Great Britain and Ireland in 2009 with Leam Neeson in the lead role. His 2013 biopic film "Princess Diana" was met with devastating international criticism. At the Berlinale 2015 he presented his film "Elser - He would have changed the world".

   

Dans le rôle de réalisateur

Untergang (10/10/2005)

– Trop humain ! – Trop sensible ! – Trop pas assez démoniaque, pas assez représentant du diable sur Terre ! Extrait de quelques unes des critiques qui accueillirent Der Untergang Loading… , film sur les derniers jours d’Hitler, une oeuvre d’Oliver Hirschbiegel, réalisant là son troisième film. Il faut dire que parler d’Adolf Hitler […]