Dennis Gansel

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1973-10-04 (51 years old)

Place of Birth Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Dennis Gansel

Biography

Dennis Gansel (born 4 October 1973) is a German film director, writer and actor. Gansel was born in 1973 in Hanover, Germany. He grew up in East Berlin and started making films when he was 17. Gansel worked in the festivals for film and television and with disabled people. During this time, he prepared himself for film school. He studied at Munich Film School HFF where he studied for 5 years. Gansel is best known for directing The Wave and his following project; the vampire film We Are The Night, which starred Karoline Herfurth, Nina Hoss, Jennifer Ulrich, Anna Fischer and Max Riemelt. Other than directing, Gansel has also tried acting. He has had several small roles in his own movies as wells as others. Gansel frequently casts Max Riemelt in his films and frequently works with editor Jochen Retter and composer/musician Heiko Maile. His favourite director is Sydney Pollack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dennis Gansel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

The Tiger

as Director

Grim Night

as Director

2019
Berlin, I Love You

as Director

2018
Das Boot

as Director

2016
2012
The Fourth State

as Director

2010
We Are the Night

as Director

2008
The Wave

as Director

2004
Before the Fall

as Director

2001
Girls on Top

as Director

2000
Das Phantom

as Director

1996
The Wrong Trip

as Director

Actor

2011
Room 205 of Fear

as Psychiatrist

2009
2008
The Wave

as Martin

2004

Writer

The Tiger

as Writer

2019
2012
2010
2008
The Wave

as Screenplay

2004
Before the Fall

as Writer

2000
Das Phantom

as Writer

Producer

2019
We Are the Wave

as Executive Producer

Creator

2019
We Are the Wave

as Creator