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, was 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

Morgenmagazin

Release Date1992-07-19

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Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Golden Globe Awards

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Release Date1944-01-20

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Episode Count1

Vote Count17

Grimme Award

Grimme Award

Release Date1964-01-16

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Episode Count2

German Film Award

Release Date1951-06-06

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Episode Count1

Vote Count1

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 Date1953-03-19

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Episode Count1

Vote Count76

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 Date2022-11-16

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Vote Count16

Sequestered - Inside Conclave

The making of the 2025 thriller movie Conclave about the papal election, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.

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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 Date1970-11-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count117

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 Date1971-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count24

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 Date2022-10-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4408

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 Date2015-06-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count192

The Terror

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

Release Date2018-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count929

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 Date2024-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3051

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 Date2020-12-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count20

Vote Count1638

Ballad of a Small Player

Amid the glittering casinos of Macau, a gambler running from his past — and his debts — becomes fascinated by an enigmatic woman at the baccarat table.

Release Date2025-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count219

Bloch

Bloch is a German television series.

Release Date2002-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

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 Date2018-05-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count299

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 Date2019-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

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 Date2014-10-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count56

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 Date2011-06-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

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 Date2002-08-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

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 Date1998-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

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.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst

Release Date2007-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count5

Schimanski

Release Date1997-11-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count14

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 Date2001-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

On the Beach

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 Date2015-07-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Riders

In the 1980s, an Australian living in Ireland embarks on a frantic search for his missing wife.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Eden

Release Date2019-05-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

The Barrier

Plot TBA. Discussed as Interstellar meets Top Gun.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1

1949

In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Englishman

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sidewalk Hotel

Short film. Premise and duration unknown.

Release Date1993-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Strait-Jacket

Short film. Premise and duration unknown.

Release Date1992-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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 Date2012-12-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

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 Date2007-09-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Wanderbread

Short film. Premise and duration unknown.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Smelly Dinners

Short film. Premise and duration unknown.

Release Date1994-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter