Oskar Roehler

Oskar Roehler (b. 1959, Starnberg, Germany) is the son of writers Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. He has lived in Berlin since the beginning of the 1980s, working as a screenwriter, journalist, and author of plays and stories. Since the mid 1990s he has focused mainly on film direction. His writer-director effort Silvester Countdown (1997) was screened in 1998 at KVIFF, where two years later the protagonist of his film No Place to Go (Die Unberührbare), Hannelore Elsner, took Best Actress. Selected filmography: Gentleman (1995), Suck My Dick (2001), Angst (Der alte Affe Angst, 2003), Agnes and His Brothers (Agnes und seine Brüder, 2004), Atomized (Elementarteilchen, 2006 – Best Actor Silver Bear at Berlin for Moritz Bleibtreu), Lulu & Jimi (2009), Jew Süss – Rise and Fall (Jud Süss – Film ohne Gewissen, 2010). In 2011 he published his first book, Origin (Herkunft).

48. MFF Karlovy Vary