Dennis Gansel

Known for DirectingBorn 1973-10-04 (age 52)Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Living Dead

The Wrong Trip

Sarah Kuttner – Die Show

The Wave

The Tank

Das Boot

Before the Fall

Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver

Mechanic: Resurrection

Men in the City

Das Phantom

We Are the Wave

We Are the Night

The Fourth State

Mädchen Mädchen!

Jim Button and the Wild 13

German Film Award

Girls on Top

Berlin, I Love You

Room 205 of Fear

Bavarian Film Awards

Grimme Award

Im Auftrag des Herrn

Grim Night