{"id":3519,"date":"2022-02-08T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T06:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfiction\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2022-02-08T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T07:29:40","slug":"christian-schwochow-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/zfiction\/2022\/02\/08\/christian-schwochow-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Schwochow (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christian Schwochow is a director for film, television and theatre.\u00a0He most recently wrapped on his feature film Munich<\/i>: The Edge of War<\/i>, produced by Turbine Films for Netflix, starring Jeremy Irons, George MacKay and Alex Jennings. Prior to that he directed two episodes of the\u00a0The<\/i> Crown <\/i>Season 3.<\/p>\n

He directed the critically acclaimed German series Bad Banks<\/i>,\u00a0about 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 <\/i>Suis<\/i> Karl<\/i> and\u00a0Deutschstunde<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Before becoming a director, Christian worked as a reporter for German and French television. He graduated from the renowned Film Academy Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg in 2008. He wrote the screenplays for his two feature films Marta und der <\/i>fliegende<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>Grossvater<\/i>\u00a0and Novemberkind<\/i> together with his mother, the author and director Heide Schwochow. This was also how the screenplay for Die<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>Unsichtbare<\/i> (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 <\/i>Turm<\/i>, based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Tellkamp, earned Christian Schwochow the Grimme Award in 2013. His feature film Westen<\/i> 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<\/i> about the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker was also released.<\/p>\n

Christian’s work has won numerous awards including the German Film Award, the German Emmy, the German Television Awards, and the German Grimme Award.\u00a0He has also been awarded at international Festivals such as Montreal International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary and recently at Series Mania in Paris.<\/p>\n

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