Cyrill Boss
Cyrill Boss (born November 24, 1974 in Munich ) is a German film director and screenwriter .
Life
After various short films, he graduated from the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in the field of directing in 2003 . Since 2000 he has been working with Philipp Stennert as a writer and director duo. In 2006 they shot their first joint feature film Neues vom Wixxer . The parody of the Edgar Wallace films of the 1950s and 1960s saw almost one million viewers in the spring of 2007.
This was followed by the action comedy Jerry Cotton (2010) and Das Haus der Krokodile (2013), a film adaptation of the youth novel by Helmut Ballot . Boss and Stennert received the Bavarian Film Prize in 2013 for Das Haus der Krokodile and were nominated for the German Film Prize in the same year .
In 2013, Boss and Stennert directed the psychological thriller Beside the Track - Adrenalin for ZDF . The film is based on the novel of the same name by Australian bestselling author Michael Robotham and premiered at the Munich Film Festival . In 2014, the directing duo adapted the second thriller in the series of novels entitled Beside the Trace - Amnesia .
In autumn 2015, Boss and Stennert took over the direction of a two-part event movie for ARD entitled The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals . The Dasslers premiered in 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was awarded the Bernd Burgemeister TV Prize.
Boss and Stennert were responsible as authors and directors for the eight-part thriller series Der Pass (2019) on the pay-TV channel Sky . In 2020 they were awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize and the German Television Prize for this. In the same year filming began for the second season.
Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert also work as advertising film directors.
Filmography
- 1999: Tribulation and completely different thoughts (short film)
- 2000: Boxing (short film)
- 2001: One more time (short film)
- 2003: Direction Allgäu (feature film)
- 2003: What doesn't fit is made to fit / 1st season (script only)
- 2004: Agujero (script only)
- 2004: What doesn't fit is made to fit / 2nd season (script only)
- 2005: A Moose Jumped Out (Co-Writer)
- 2006: The Pro7 fairy tale hour - Rapunzel (TV movie)
- 2006: The Pro7 fairy tale hour - dwarf nose (TV movie)
- 2007: News from the wanker
- 2010: Jerry Cotton
- 2012: The house of the crocodiles
- 2015: Off the track - adrenaline
- 2016: Off the track - amnesia
- 2016: The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals (TV two-part)
- 2017–18: The Pass (8-part TV series)
Awards
- German Television Award 2020 in the Best Drama Series category
- Adolf Grimme Prize 2020 for Der Pass (script and direction)
- German television crime award Best Series 2020 for "Der Pass"
- Romy Best TV Series and Best Producers 2019 for The Pass
- Golden Camera 2019 "Best Series" for Der Pass
- German Economic Film Award 2017 Special “German Economic History” award for The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals
- Bernd Burgemeister TV Award 2016 “Best TV Film” for The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals
- Goldener Spatz 2012 "Best Movie" for The House of the Crocodiles
- Bavarian Film Award 2012 for The House of the Crocodiles
- German Film Award 2012 nomination for Das Haus der Krokodile
- Giffoni Film Festival 2012 “Gryphon Award” for The House of the Crocodiles
- Youth Film Festival Antwerp & Bruges “Audience Award” for The House of the Crocodiles
- Montreal Youth Film Festival 2013 “Prix coup de coer” for The House of Crocodiles
- Cinema audience Emil 2013 for "The House of the Crocodiles"
- German Camera Prize 2011 "Best Editing", "Best Camera" for Jerry Cotton
- Jupiter Film Award 2008 “Best Film” for news from the wanker
Web links
- Cyrill Boss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Boss, Cyrill |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |