Sven Taddicken

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Sven Taddicken (* 1974 in Hamburg ) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life

Sven Taddicken studied directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy from 1996 to 2002 . During his studies he received awards for a number of short films, such as the short film prize in the national competition of the Dresden Film Festival for El Cordobés (1999) and in 1996 he took part in the workshop for young filmmakers (now the workshop of the young film scene ) with Lisa and the extraterrestrials . Counting Sheep was nominated for the Student Academy Awards in 2000.

His first feature film, My Brother the Vampire , was made in 2001 while he was still a student and won both the Audience Award at the Max Ophüls Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival . The film is about a mentally disabled 29-year-old (played by Roman Knižka ) who is beginning to discover his sexuality. The short film “ Just stay like that” followed in 2002 as a diploma film and received the German Short Film Award.

Taddicken has been a member of the German Film Academy since 2004 .

In 2006, his second feature film, Emmas Glück , was released, based on the novel of the same name by Claudia Schreiber , about the love story between a pig farmer and a terminally ill person. This film received several awards and was also commercially successful with almost 400,000 visitors in German cinemas. In 2008 the episode film May 1st - Heroes at Work came to the cinema, where Taddicken directed one of a total of three episodes.

In 2008 he shot the pirate comedy 12 Meters Without a Head , which was released in German cinemas in December 2009.

In 2016 he was invited to the competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the literary adaptation Glitzendes Glück . The relationship drama with Martina Gedeck and Ulrich Tukur in the lead roles is based on the novel of the same name by the Scottish writer Alison Louise Kennedy . The film won the Film and Literature Award at the Film by the Sea International Film Festival. In addition to being nominated for the Crystal Globe in Karlovy Vary, the film won the FIPRESCI award from the international association of film critics and film journalists there.

Sven Taddicken lives in Berlin.

Filmography

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  1. ↑ http://www.insidekino.com/Djahr/D2006.htm
  2. ↑ see p. Homepage
personal data
SURNAME Taddicken, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany