Robert Schwentke
Robert Schwentke ( born 1968 in Stuttgart ) is a German film director and screenwriter.
- 2.1 director
- 2.2 Writer
Biography
Childhood and education
The enthusiasm for the film Robert Schwentke discovered at the age of eight or nine years ago when he came across the Super -8 camera of the grandfather in the basement of his parents' house. He studied four semesters of philosophy and literature in Tübingen before joining for a film studies at Columbia College Hollywood in Los Angeles. While studying in the USA in 1993 was the short film Heaven! with Hannes Jaenicke. The film is about two greedy men committing offenses against the Mafia money and are fearful in the hot and lonely desert of California for their lives. In the late 1990s Schwentke worked in Germany, especially as a screenwriter. From his pen come from several Tatort episodes.
His first major film tattoo turned Robert Schwentke 2002 Christian Redl and August Diehl in the lead roles. The film is about two police officers on the hunt for a ruthless serial killer who has it in for the coveted tattoo of a deceased Japanese artist. A year later, the semi- autobiographical dramedy Eierdiebe for which the director at Filmfest Biberach won the audience award. The film tells the story of the student Martin Black (played by Wotan Wilke Möhring ) who suffered from testicular cancer and to avoid surgery, chemotherapy begins.
Work in the U.S.
As Schwentke problems had to finance his third film in Germany, the director went back to the USA and studied at the American Film Institute, among others. In Hollywood thriller his tattoo was shown in private test screenings, so that soon the Disney film studio became aware of him. Originally the director had planned to return to his training to Europe and there to make films. But Schwentke was with the director of the thriller Flightplan - Without a trace charge, which was a huge commercial success at the North American box office in the fall of 2005. In the film, actress Jodie Foster mimes a Flugzeugpassagierin whose child disappears without a trace on the transatlantic flight from Berlin to New York.
2007 should follow, which is about a railway worker who is trying to preserve an unmanned train loaded with poison gas before wiping out a city thriller Runaway Train. This film was 2010 by Tony Scott under the name Unstoppable - realized out of control.
Schwentke, who is a great admirer of David Fincher, considered in 2006 to lead in the movie The Deep Blue Goodbye Director. The film should be based on a novel by John D. MacDonald, who tells of a modern Robin Hood, of his services but may be reimbursed expensive. Both film projects, however, were rejected and instead took Schwentke, 2009, the Director of the between romantic drama and science fiction film settled The Time Traveler's Wife ends. The young Canadian Rachel McAdams played a starring role in the production of New Line Cinema, which is about a time traveler (Eric Bana ), which meets at various times in his life, his former lover.
The next project Schwentke turned early 2010, the comic book adaptation RED - Older, hardener, better. The story of four retired CIA agent (played by Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren ) was published in October 2010 in the cinemas.
2013 was followed by another comic book adaptation, the fantasy action comedy RIPD with Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges in the lead roles. The film about supernatural police was discussed mostly negative by critics and disappointed at the box office.
The director, who is one of Jean -Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette on his personal role models, has now moved his permanent residence to Los Angeles.
Filmography
Director
Screenwriter
Awards
Filmfest Biberach
- 2003: Audience Award for Eierdiebe
Fanta Porto
- 2003: Special award " for tattoo
- 2003: nominated for Best Picture for Tattoo
Sweden Fantastic Film Festival
- 2002: Grand Prix of European Fantasy Film in Silver - Special ceremony for tattoo