Tom Lass

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Tom Lass

Tom Lass (born August 15, 1983 in Munich ) is a German director and actor .

Life

Tom Lass first came into contact with film at the age of 10 when he was discovered by the prospective directing student Michael Baumann while acting in a holiday camp and took on a leading role in his first HFF short film Meal (1994). The actual movie debut was Marc Rothemund's movie comedy Harte Jungs in 1999 and later the equally successful sequel Knallharte Jungs .

It was followed by the lead role in the HFF diploma film Souls (2003) associated with the First Steps Award was awarded in 2004 and the International Hof Film Festival , Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival and on the diagonal in Graz ran. Immediately afterwards he got a role in the movie The Night of the Living Losers (2003). At the same time he took speaking lessons and attended a directing and acting seminar with Dieter Wardetzky at the HFF Munich .

Tom Lass has worked in numerous television productions, including a. in the television films Men Are To Wean Off (2000), Santa Claus Overboard (2003), School Trip - Always Kissing (2004) and in series such as Die Kommissarin , SOKO 5113 and Schulmaid . In 2007 he took part in the RTL comedy series Geile Zeit .

In 2005 he made the historical movie Never Sea (including Honorary Foreign Film Award) and the episode drama The Run of Things . 2006 followed a role in the movie Beautiful Bitch . He received positive reviews for his leading role in the drama Stiller Frühling (2007), in which he embodies a shy 21-year-old who undertakes an odyssey to finally find a girlfriend. The feature film was awarded the audience award at the “sehs Bäumen” film festival in the media city of Babelsberg , and received the three main prizes at the 2008 video festival; including another audience award. In 2008 he starred in the film adaptation of the novel Krabat .

Tom Lass founded Lass Bros Filmproduktion together with his brother Jakob Lass in 2006 . Be produced with a budget of 2,500 euros Movie Papa Gold , where he directed and played the lead role was in 2011 premiered at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival, awarded the German Film Critics (VDFK) with the price of the Union and for the First Steps Awards nominated . His second feature film, Kaptn Oskar , in which he again took on the double function of director and lead role, was invited to the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in 2013 and received the German Independence Award at the Oldenburg International Film Festival.

His third feature film Blind & Ugly is a coproduction with ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel and is about Ferdi, who thinks he's ugly, and Jona, who pretends to be blind. The film was awarded the prize of the international critic association FIPRESCI at the Munich Film Festival in 2017 .

Filmography

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jury statement of the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) on Stiller Frühling , accessed on July 29, 2011
  2. ↑ Via the Lass Brothers lassbros.com, accessed October 11, 2014
  3. ↑ Jury statement at the Achtung Berlin Festival 2011 ( memento of the original from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / achtungberlin.de
  4. ↑ Official Papa Gold website , accessed July 29, 2011
  5. ↑ Prize winners of the Int. Oldenburg Film Festival , accessed on January 17, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Leave it, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich