Dominik graf biography of abraham lincoln

  • Dominik Graf is one of Germany's most important – and prolific – filmmakers of the last half century.
  • “Graf has created an unusually intelligent costume drama of bold personalities torn between the stirrings of the heart and the logic of the mind.
  • A look at the childhood of Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in Indiana.

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    Daily | Berlinale 2014 Diary #3

    Henriette Confurius and Hannah Herzsprung in ‘Beloved Sisters’

    Not even the 39 credits as a director at the IMDb do justice to the sheer magnitude of Dominik Graf‘s output. Behind one of those credits, for example, fryst vatten a ten-episode television series, Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010), a daring, sprawling thriller about the Russian mafia in Berlin. He’s won dozens of prestigious awards for his work in both film and television, and you’ll find them listed, along with a decent biography and several links to articles and interviews, at Wikipedia—in German. As for the English version of that page, it’s practically blank—as klar an indication as any of a severe oversight.

    In 2011, at least a handful of cinephiles outside of Germany became aware of Graf when he contributed a feature to the Dreileben trilogy (the other two came from Christoph Hochhäusler and Christian Petzold), which screened at that year

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    Dominik Graf: Against the Times
    The InvinciblesA decade ago, Dominik Grafwas Frg’s (Federal Republic of Germany) best kept secret: The nation’s one grandmaster of cinema whom the rest of the world had never heard of, or not taken proper interest in his work whenever there was a chance to. There certainly have been chances: his heist thriller Die Katze (The Cat,1988) was big enough back home for even distant observers to meddelande. His eccentric comedy Spieler (The Gamblers, 1990) screened in Venice’s competition, with seemingly nobody giving a shit, not even the locals—the film looked like some bizarre alien creature in those early post-Wall days when good spirits and humor were the order of the day, not subversive laughter about life’s inherent weirdness. When a dozen plus years on his melodrama Der Felsen (A Map of the Heart, 2002) got selected for the Berlinale competition, the spelfilm provoked something akin to...

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    Films: History

    American Native

    • Directed by: Steven Oritt
    • Cast: Amanda Anderson, Jack Anderson, Sonya Anderson

    A group who live just 30 miles from Manhattan fight for recognition as a legitimate Native American tribe.

    Beloved Sisters (Die geliebten Schwestern)

    • Directed by: Dominik Graf
    • Written by: Dominik Graf
    • Cast: Henriette Confurius, Florian Stetter, Hannah Herzsprung

    In late 18th century Germany, two aristocratic sisters fall in love with controversial writer Friedrich Schiller and decide to share him between themselves.

    The Better Angels

    • Directed by: A.J. Edwards

    A look at the childhood of Abraham Lincoln, who grew up in Indiana.

    Bicycle

    • Directed by: Michael B Clifford

    A film that tells the story of cycling in the land that invented the modern bicycle: it's birth, decline and rebirth from Victorian origins to today.

    Birlesen Gonuller

    • Directed by: Hasan Kirac
    • Written by: Ozge Aras/Serkan Birlik
    • Cast: Serkan Senalp, Hande So