Hans-Christian Schmid
Hans- Christian Schmid ( born August 19, 1965 in Altötting ) is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Life
Hans -Christian Schmid visited the King Carloman High School in Altötting, where he also obtained his high school diploma. He studied at the University of Television and Film Munich Documentary and finished his studies with his thesis in 1992. As part of his studies, he turned champagne or soda, a documentary about people addicted to slot players, the short film The Laughing Storm, and the documentary The mechanics of miracle, which deals with the contradiction between faith and commerce in his hometown Altötting.
With the producer Jakob Claussen and Thomas Wöbke Hans -Christian Schmid has a long- standing collaboration: Heaven and Hell, a teleplay about an internal Church sect, After Five in the jungle, Schmid's film debut, as well as the later films 23 - Nothing is as it seems Crazy and lights were produced by Claussen and Wöbke.
With After Five in the jungle working with the writer and director Michael Gutmann, which continued with a number of other common scenarios began. In addition to directing Michael Gutmann was formed in 1998 the movie 23 - Nothing is as it seems, a year later, the novel adaptation Crazy, and in 2003 the episode film lights, which premiered in competition at the Berlinale 2003.
In 2004, Hans -Christian Schmid, the production company 23/5, with which he first realized the movie Requiem from a screenplay by Bernd Lange. Requiem was premiered in 2006 in competition at the Berlinale and won, among others, the German Film Award 2006 in Silver in the category of Best Film. With Requiem he builds on his early work Heaven and Hell. Also this had already dealt with the psychological pitfalls of an extremely practiced Catholicism. This time, the authentic Obsession case of Anneliese Michel from Klingenberg am Main and the decision to perform an exorcism, recreated from the 1970s.
The second production under the umbrella of 23/5 was Robert Thalheim's feature film And Along Come Tourists. Shot in the fall of 2006 in Poland, the 2007 film in the series " Un Certain Regard " in Cannes had its premiere.
From 2007 to 2009 arose under Schmid's Director of both the documentary The Wondrous World of Laundry and the feature film Storm to the Bernd Lange and Hans- Christian Schmid wrote the screenplay. Storm shows the story about the sentencing of a former Yugoslav army at the International Criminal Court in The Hague and competed in competition at the 59th Berlinale. For storm Schmid was nominated for the German Film Award with the film silver award for the Best Film Award (along with Britta Knöller ) as well as in the categories direction and screenplay (along with Bernd Lange) 2010.
2012 received Schmid for his feature film that remains his fourth invitation to the competition at the Berlinale, again Bernd Lange wrote the film script for the. The film is about a family meeting where a couple and their adult children meet and are faced with unspoken truths.
Schmid lives in Berlin.