Name
Dennis Gansel
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1973-10-04 (53 years old)
Place of Birth
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Biography
Dennis Gansel (born 4 October 1973) is a German film director, writer and actor.
Gansel was born in 1973 in Hanover, Germany. He grew up in East Berlin and started making films when he was 17. Gansel worked in the festivals for film and television and with disabled people. During this time, he prepared himself for film school. He studied at Munich Film School HFF where he studied for 5 years. Gansel is best known for directing The Wave and his following project; the vampire film We Are The Night, which starred Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt.
Other than directing, Gansel has also tried acting. He has had several small roles in his own movies as wells as others.
Gansel frequently casts Max Riemelt in his films and frequently works with editor Jochen Retter and composer/musician Heiko Maile. His favourite director is Sydney Pollack.
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- 2011 Room 205 of Fear as Psychiatrist
- 2008 The Wave as Martin
- 2009 Men in the City as Lars
- 2004 Before the Fall
- Soon Im Auftrag des Herrn as Ben
- 2001 Girls on Top
- 1964 Grimme Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1951 German Film Award ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1979 Bavarian Film Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2004 Sarah Kuttner – Die Show ( 1 episode ) as self - guest
