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Dennis Gansel

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Dennis Gansel

Born October 4, 1973 in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany15 films

Dennis Gansel (born 4 October 1973) is a German film director, writer and actor.

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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.

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The Wave posterFirst watchThe Wave20087.5A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Mechanic: Resurrection poster6.1Mechanic: Resurrection2016The Tank poster7.1The Tank2025Before the Fall poster7.1Before the Fall2004We Are the Night poster6.0We Are the Night2010Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver poster6.4Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver2018Girls on Top poster5.2Girls on Top2001Jim Button and the Wild 13 poster5.9Jim Button and the Wild 132020The Fourth State poster6.0The Fourth State2012

Filmography

15 films as director
  1. TBAGrim NightDirector
  2. TBAIm Auftrag des HerrnDirector
  3. 2025The TankDirector
  4. 2020Jim Button and the Wild 13Director
  5. 2019Berlin, I Love YouDirector
  6. 2018Jim Button and Luke the Engine DriverDirector
  7. 2016Mechanic: ResurrectionDirector
  8. 2012The Fourth StateDirector
  9. 2010We Are the NightDirector
  10. 2008The WaveDirector
  11. 2004Before the FallDirector
  12. 2001Girls on TopDirector
  13. 2000Das PhantomDirector
  14. 1997Living DeadDirector
  15. 1996The Wrong TripDirector