Christian Schwochow is a director for film, television and theatre. He most recently wrapped on his feature film Munich: The Edge of War, produced by Turbine Films for Netflix, starring Jeremy Irons, George MacKay and Alex Jennings. Prior to that he directed two episodes of the The Crown Season 3.
He directed the critically acclaimed German series Bad Banks, about a young female investment banker, which won numerous awards including the German Television Awards for Best Director and Best Series. He has directed numerous feature films, amongst them Je Suis Karl and Deutschstunde.
Before becoming a director, Christian worked as a reporter for German and French television. He graduated from the renowned Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in 2008. He wrote the screenplays for his two feature films Marta und der fliegende Grossvater and Novemberkind together with his mother, the author and director Heide Schwochow. This was also how the screenplay for Die Unsichtbare (2011) was written, in which a quiet drama student is driven to the brink of the abyss by the compulsion to succeed and by the family burden with a disabled sister. The TV two-parter Der Turm, based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Tellkamp, earned Christian Schwochow the Grimme Award in 2013. His feature film Westen premiered in 2013 at the Canadian World Film Festival in Montreal, where it received the prize of the Film Critics and Film Journalists Association FIPRESCI. In 2016, the film Paula about the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker was also released.
Christian’s work has won numerous awards including the German Film Award, the German Emmy, the German Television Awards, and the German Grimme Award. He has also been awarded at international Festivals such as Montreal International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary and recently at Series Mania in Paris.
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