Alexander Nanau

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1979-05-18 (45 years old)

Place of Birth Bucarest, Romania

Also Known As Александр Нанау

Alexander Nanau

Biography

Alexander Nanau was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1979. His family belongs to the Transylvanian Saxons, a cultural minority of German descent who lived since generations in Romania. 1990 they emigrated to Germany and became German citizens. Nanau studied Film Direction at the renowned DFFB in Berlin. His first feature documentary Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt (2006) was released 2006 in Germany and Austria. In 2007 he was a scholarship holder of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 2008/2009 he co-produced with HBO Romania, directed and shot the documentary Lumea vãzutã de Ion B. (2009) about a 62 years homeless man who starts a career in the international art world with collages he made over the last 30 years. The documentary was selected for over 40 international film festivals and won the prestigious 'International Emmy Award' for Arts Programming in 2010. His third feature documentary Toto si surorile lui (2014), produced together with HBO Europe, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in the 'New Directors' section. The film won major awards at the international film festivals in Angers, Zurich, Warsaw, Jihlava, Leipzig and Sarajevo. It was nominated as 'Best Documentary' at the European Film Awards 2015 and won the international Cinema Eye Honors' Spotlight Award 2016.

Known For

Director

2019
Collective

as Director

2014

Producer

2022
Klarsfeld

as Executive Producer

2019
Collective

as Producer

2014

Writer

2019
Collective

as Writer

2014

Editor

2019
Collective

as Editor

2014

Camera

2019
Collective

as Director of Photography

2014
Toto and his Sisters

as Director of Photography

Crew

2016
Cinema, Mon Amour

as Creative Consultant

Actor

1953
The Oscars

as Self