Achim von Borries

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Achim von Borries (born November 13, 1968 in Munich ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Achim von Borries strove for a career as a film director, applied to two film schools, which initially rejected him with the statement that he was “still too young”. Nevertheless, he felt strongly connected to the medium of film, so that he worked for several months in television, including as a camera assistant. However, this activity did not correspond to his ambitious artistic ideas, so that he initially decided to study history, political science and philosophy at the Free University in Berlin , until he switched to the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in 1992 , where he joined Degree in directing.

His short films received several awards during his student days, for example Halberstadt won the special jury prize and the student camera prize at the International University Film Festival in Munich in 1998. His feature film debut England! , a thesis of the DFFB financed exclusively with German funding, has been shown at many international film festivals and has received several awards. Due to the consistently positive reviews, this strip even found a film rental company and was shown nationwide in cinemas. In 2004, the film followed, What is the use of love in thoughts , which earned him the New Faces Award for “best young director”.

As a screenwriter he worked with Hendrik Handloegten and Christoph Silber on Good Bye, Lenin! With. In 2005 he wrote the screenplay for the cartoon The Three Robbers based on the children's book of the same name by Tomi Ungerer .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Achim von Borries  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Berliner Stadtmagazin ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), on berlin030.de, accessed on February 4, 2004, in the Internet Archive , as of September 28, 2007, viewed February 12, 2011
  2. ↑ welt.de
  3. ^ Berlinale 2004 (Panorama): What is the use of love in thoughts , review by Thomas Vorwerk for satt.org, February 2004, accessed in March 2013
  4. ↑ Cinema review for the film launch "4 days in May": At the end of the war , review by Fred Duran in Augsburger Allgemeine from September 28, 2011, accessed March 28, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Borries, Achim von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich