David Birch

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David Birke is an American screenwriter .

After studying at the University of California in Los Angeles Birch worked for several years as a screenwriter especially for TV movies, TV series, soap operas and low budget - horror films . He received the International Cinephile Society Award for his screenplay for the Oscar- nominated film Elle .

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David Birke wrote the screenplay for the award-winning thriller Elle by Paul Verhoeven and starring Isabelle Huppert . The script was based on the novel Oh ... by the French author Philippe Djian , who was awarded the French literary prize Prix ​​Interallié in 2012. The film was originally supposed to be produced in the USA and cast with American actors, so David Birke was hired as a screenwriter. At that time, Verhoeven knew David Birke, but did not know that he had mainly written B-movies up to now . However, Verhoeven found no one in Hollywood who wanted to finance or produce the film and all the actresses asked turned down the role. Isabelle Huppert, who knew the book and had already thought of a film adaptation, immediately accepted. The English script was therefore changed - the story is now set in France in a video game production company and no longer in Chicago or Hollywood - and was translated into French by the Franco-British screenwriter Harold Manning (* 1968) in close cooperation with Birke and Verhoeven .

For his script, Birke received the International Cinephile Society Award, the Gaudí Award and the César , and was nominated for the Chicago Film Critics Award .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1991: The Horseplayer
  • 1996: A Kidnapping in the Family
  • 2002: Dahmer (with David Jacobson)
  • 2003: Gacy
  • 2003: The Crawl Space
  • 2004: Dark Town
  • 2010: Freeway Killer
  • 2014: 13 sins
  • 2016: Elle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dayly Bruin, February 21, 2017 , accessed May 14, 2017
  2. ↑ epd-film , February 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ Tim Lindemann: Interview with Paul Verhoeven about his film Elle in: epd-film, February 14, 2017, accessed on May 15, 2017
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SURNAME Birch, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century