Dennis Gansel

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1973-10-04 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Dennis Gansel

Biography

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 ...

Acting

2011

Room 205 of Fear

as Psychiatrist

2008

The Wave

as Martin

2009

Production

2008

The Wave

as Director

2008

The Wave

as Screenplay

2001

Girls on Top

as Director

2004

Before the Fall

as Director

2000

Das Phantom

as Director

2010

We Are the Night

as Director

2010

2012

2012

The Fourth State

as Director

-

Grim Night

as Director

2019

2019

2016

2004

-

The Tiger

as Director

-

The Tiger

as Writer

2000

Das Phantom

as Writer

1996

The Wrong Trip

as Director

2025

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