Michael Klier

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Michael Klier (born January 16, 1943 in Karlsbad , Sudetenland ) is a German film director and screenwriter .

life and work

Michael Klier was born in Karlsbad. In 1947 the family fled from what was then Czechoslovakia to Zittau in the Soviet occupation zone ; 1961 then to the Federal Republic of Germany . Klier first learned the profession of theater painter , lived for a few years in Paris and was a footballer . From 1969 he studied philosophy and history at the Free University of Berlin .

Klier made numerous short films and TV portraits, among others about Jean-Marie Straub , Roberto Rossellini , François Truffaut (with whom he was an intern), Claude Sautet , Godard's cameramen and Henri Alekan . For his feature film Ostkreuz he received the Director's Award at the Munich Film Festival, the Bavarian Film Award, the Grimme Award and much more, and for Everywhere It's Better Where We Are Not the Hessian Film Award, the German Film Critics 'Award, and the German Academy of Performing Arts' TV Film Award . Klier was a directing lecturer at the DFFB Berlin , HFF Munich , HFF Babelsberg .

Michael Klier lives in Berlin . His younger brother, the musician Gottfried Klier and father of the photographer Nadja Klier , was married to Freya Klier in the 1970s .

Filmography

  • 1963: Test recordings , short film with Rolf Zacher (script, director)
  • 1965: Ferrari , short film, awards, critics award (screenplay, director)
  • 1965: Project Katz und Maus, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1965: The Abitur, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1965: Yeah Yeah, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1965: September 19 , documentary with Robert van Ackeren (screenplay, editor)
  • 1970: Not reconciled. Jean-Marie Staub in Italy (screenplay, director)
  • 1976: Roberto Rossellini, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1977: Interview Sautet / Godard, short film (screenplay, director, together with Wilfried Reichart)
  • 1978: Truffaut and the women, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1 978: Between Two Wars , feature film (as actor, director: Harun Farocki )
  • 1981: Godard's cameramen, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1982: acting. Gestures and faces, short film (screenplay, director)
  • 1983: System without shadows , feature film (as actor together with Bruno Ganz , director: Rudolf Thome)
  • 1983: The Giant , video documentary film (director, screenplay, camera, producer)
  • 1986: Casting , documentary about Juliette Binoche, Beatrice Dalle a. a. (Script, director, co-producer)
  • 1989: The Little Sisters of the Nouvelle Vage and The Gang of Four by Jaques Rivette , short film (director, together with Norbert Jochum)
  • 1989: It's better wherever we're not , TV feature film (director, screenplay, co-producer)
  • 1991: Ostkreuz , TV feature film (director, screenplay with Karin Åström , producer)
  • 1995: Out of America , documentary (director, screenplay, co-producer)
  • 2001: Heidi M. , feature film (director, screenplay)
  • 2003: A man is fighting his way through , episode from 99eurofilms (screenplay, direction, co-producer)
  • 2004: Farland , feature film (director, screenplay)
  • 2005: Der Rote Kakadu , feature film (screenplay with Karin Åström and Günter Schütter , directed by Dominik Graf)
  • 2009: Age and Beauty , (Director, Screenplay)
  • 2018/19: Idiots of the family, feature film (director, screenplay, producer)

Awards

  • Hessian Film Prize / Prize of the German Film Critics / Adolf Grimme Prize with gold 1990 for everywhere it's better where we are not
  • Director's Award at the Munich Film Festival 1991 / Bavarian Film Award 1991 / Critic Award 1991 / Award of the Performing Arts / Audience Award Locarno 1991 / Grimme Award 1991 for Ostkreuz

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personal data
SURNAME Klier, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Carlsbad