Edward Berger

Edward Berger (German: [ˈedvart ˈbɛʁɡɐ]; born 1970) is a German-born director and screenwriter who holds Swiss and Austrian citizenship. He is known for the German films Jack (2014), All My Loving (2019), and All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), as well as his English-language debut Conclave (2024). He also directed several television series, including Deutschland 83 (2015) and Patrick Melrose (2018).  For All Quiet on the Western Front, Berger accepted an Academy Award for Best International Film, nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and won three British Academy Film Awards. For Conclave, Berger also received several accolades, including his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Director and a British Academy Film Award for Outstanding British Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edward Berger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

The Vagabonds

A down-on-his luck adventurer sails around the world in search of a missing ship full of treasure from the Iraq War.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.2

Conclave

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.

Release Date: 2024-10-25

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 2389

Submerged

A WWII submarine crew combats a harrowing torpedo attack in this adrenaline-pumping thrill ride. From filmmaker Edward Berger, director of the Academy Award®-winning All Quiet on the Western Front.

Release Date: 2024-10-10

Department: Directing

Job: Director

7.7

All Quiet on the Western Front

Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.

Release Date: 2022-10-07

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Vote Count: 4160

Your Honor
8.1

Your Honor

New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.

Release Date: 2020-12-06

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 1588

5.5

All My Loving

Three siblings have all reached a point of their life, at which they realize the need to quickly change some things before they step into the second half of their lifetime. In the midst of chaos, insufficiency and loss they are searching for the path that just might lead them to happiness.

Release Date: 2019-05-23

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 10

Patrick Melrose
7.5

Patrick Melrose

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.

Release Date: 2018-05-12

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 276

Am Strand

Laura and Clemens spend their holidays at the sea in Northern Germany. Laura is bored and invents a game: She pretends to be blind. Over the course of a few days the couple gets entangled in their lie, revealing the emptiness of their relationship.

Release Date: 2015-01-01

Department: Production

Job: Producer

7.0

Jack

Ten-year-old Jack has to take care of his little brother, six-year-old Manuel, every day from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed. When Manuel suffers an accident, their lives change forever.

Release Date: 2014-10-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 54

5.4

Mom's Gotta Go

Adult dreamer Tristan still lives under his mother's thumb. After she has a health scare, he realizes how much he wants her gone... permanently.

Release Date: 2012-12-28

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 15

5.0

A Good Summer

A tragicomedy about the trials and tribulations of life: three lonely hearts find each other, drift apart and experience the happiness of the moment together

Release Date: 2011-06-25

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 2

6.0

Windland

Oskar lives with his ill father in a quiet village. Twenty years ago, his brother Theo was caught with an underage girl and has since left their lives. Then the village is startled: Theo reappears when an eight-year-old girl is murdered.

Release Date: 2007-09-05

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Bloch
5.3

Bloch

Bloch is a German television series.

Release Date: 2002-09-04

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

Under Suspicion
6.4

Under Suspicion

Detective Dr. Eva Maria Prohacek and her colleague Langner investigate cases of civil servant crime and internal disciplinary matters. From the little patrol officer in uniform to the public prosecutor or the government director - anyone can become a suspect.

Release Date: 2002-08-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

5.0

Frau2 Seeks HappyEnd

A radio presenter and a telephone operator, both mourning the loss of their unhappy love affair, meet anonymously in an Internet chat room after a fated car accident, where emails bring them closer to each other.

Release Date: 2001-01-11

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

The Englishman

A German Stasi officer is tasked with an assignment to reveal the identity of a mysterious assassin known as 'The Englishman'.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Ballad of a Small Player

A high-stakes gambler decides to lay low in Macau after his past and debts catch up with him. Along the way he encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

6.2

Making All Quiet on the Western Front

Go behind the scenes of Edward Berger’s WWI epic and see how the cast and crew crafted its amazing authenticity — from the sets to the SFX prosthetics.

Release Date: 2022-11-16

Character: Self

Vote Count: 14

2.0

Gomez: Heads or Tails

Dominik, a 16-year-old student, lives with a troubled family and finds himself alone. In order to impress a girl, he gets involved in a shady deal where things go wrong. Then a true friendship comes to save him from the disaster.

Release Date: 1998-01-20

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 1

Wanderbread

Release Date: 1995-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Smelly Dinners

Release Date: 1994-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Sidewalk Hotel

Release Date: 1993-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Strait-Jacket

Release Date: 1992-01-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Barrier

Plot TBA. Discussed as Interstellar meets Top Gun.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

A Ladder to the Sky

An ambitious, handsome young writer manipulates, seduces, and plagiarizes his way to literary stardom. His obsession with climbing the ranks sends him journeying through the Amalfi Coast, Manhattan, London, and beyond — but the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall.

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Fatherland

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Untitled Evan Gershkovich Biopic

Chronicles the harrowing year the Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent Evan Gershkovich spent in a Russian prison on fabricated espionage charges after being arrested by the Federal Security Service.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Riders

An Australian living in Ireland embarks on a frantic search for his missing wife.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Eden
7.8

Eden

Release Date: 2019-05-02

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 5

The Terror
7.3

The Terror

A chilling anthology series featuring stories of people in terrifying situations inspired by true historical events.

Release Date: 2018-03-26

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 872

Deutschland
7.4

Deutschland

A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

Release Date: 2015-06-17

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 179

KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst
6.8

KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst

Release Date: 2007-02-02

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

Schimanski
8.0

Schimanski

Release Date: 1997-11-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 13

Morgenmagazin
3.5

Morgenmagazin

Release Date: 1992-07-19

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 2

Polizeiruf 110
6.4

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der DDR the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series Tatort, and quickly became a public favorite.

Release Date: 1971-06-27

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 21

Scene of the Crime
6.2

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.

Release Date: 1970-11-29

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 111

Helltown

Helltown

In 1969 Kurt was a struggling novelist and car salesman living life with his wife and five children on Cape Cod. When two women disappear and are later discovered murdered underneath the sand dunes on the outskirts of Provincetown, Kurt becomes obsessed and embroiled in the chilling hunt for a serial killer and forms a dangerous bond with the prime suspect.

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Episode Count: 1

Grimme Awards Ceremony

Grimme Awards Ceremony

Release Date: 1964-01-16

Character: Self

Episode Count: 2

The Oscars
7.0

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

Release Date: 1953-03-19

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 71

Deutscher Filmpreis
6.0

Deutscher Filmpreis

Release Date: 1951-01-01

Character: Self

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

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