Oliver Hirschbiegel

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Date of Birth: 29 Dec 1957

Country: Germany

Biography: Oliver Hirschbiegel (born 29 December 1957) is a German film director. His works include Das Experiment and the Oscar-nominated Downfall.

Total Credits at Criticker: 13 (Director), 1 (Writer)

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    The Experiment
    A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards...
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    Downfall
    It's the last days of Adolf Hitler, April 1945, and Hitler's personal secretary Traudl Junge finds herself in the Der Fuhrer's bunker. Facing inevitable defeat, Hilter's moods range from defiance to fight or flee, remain loyal or opt for self-preservation. Eva Braun parties while Magda Goebbels kills her children. The movie goes on to show how Hitler and Eva lived their last hours in the Bunker. (imdb)
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    The Invasion
    The Invasion is a nightmarish journey into a world where the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. The mysterious crash of the space shuttle leads to the terrifying discovery that there is something alien within the wreckage. Those who come in contact with it are changing in ominous and inexplicable ways. Soon Washington D.C. psychiatrist Carol Bennell and her colleague Ben Driscoll learn the shocking truth about the growing extraterrestrial epidemic... (imdb)
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    Ein Ganz gewöhnlicher Jude
    Based on a book by the Swiss author Charles Lewinsky, in the middle of this one-man film is the Jewish journalist, Emanuel Goldfarb, who is invited to speak at a school about his daily life as a "Jewish fellow citizen". Thinking that the whole thing is an idiotic idea, as more than enough has already been said on this subject, he writes a letter to the teacher, refusing the invitation. Yet, to his own surprise, it develops into a general settling of accounts with the German-Jewish relationship. (filmportal.de)
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    Five Minutes of Heaven
    The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two. (imdb)
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    Todfeinde - Die falsche Entscheidung
    Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. The two friends cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug world. And that he was on his way to hand over important documents to the federal police. The feds want these papers badly; the drug lord wants them even worse. And only Max and Nico can retrieve them. But with Max recruited by the feds and Nico lured by Mafia's money, the two friends are forced to cross swords in a hopeless and deadly situation... (imdb)
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    Mein letzter Film
    This is Marie's last film; the last, lonely appearance by a great actress whose beauty is timeless. Marie has achieved all there is to achieve for a woman in her profession, and she decides to turn her back on her former life. While she packs her things, she discloses the details of her life - perhaps for the first time. And a young cameraman captures all of it. The result is a 90-minute solo performance in Marie's apartment in Berlin, a performance in which the actress looks back on her life. (amazon.co.uk)
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    Diana
    During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan. (imdb)
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    13 Minutes
    The breath-taking story of a man who nearly would have changed the world. 1939, when Hitler tricked millions of people at the height of his power, one said a radical No: Georg Elser, disparaged as an assassin, is one of the greatest resistance fighters. (imdb)
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    Kommissar Rex
    Kommissar Rex (1994) - TV Series
    A recently divorced cop adopts a police dog who lost his former companion, together they solve crimes in and around Vienna. (imdb)
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    The Same Sky
    The Same Sky (2017) - TV Series
    An East German spy is tasked with seducing women in the west that work in government or the military.
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    Das Urteil
    Das Urteil (1997) - TV Movie
    The Jewish antiques dealer Siegfried Rabinovicz is on his way from New York to Hamburg where he is about to testify as the principal witness in a murder case. During a stop-over, an airport hostess talks him into giving up his seat on the connecting flight to another passenger. While Rabinovicz is waiting in the VIP lounge, he gets into a conversation with a stranger who is remarkably well informed about the murder Rabinovicz is going to testify about. (letterboxd.com)
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    Criminal: Germany
    In the interview room, detectives go head-to-head with suspects and try to get to the truth - even if it means breaking the rules and risking it all.
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