From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Götz Spielmann (born January 11, 1961 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter. Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. At the Viennese Filmacadamy, his professors included Harald Zusanek and Axel Corti. After making several short films, and receiving his diploma with Vergiss Sneider!, with the drama Erwin und Julia, Spielmann had his first great success. In 1993, his film Der Nachbar won the Vienna Filmaward at the Viennale. And in 1994, his film for television Dieses naive Verlangen was awarded with the Erich-Neuberg-Preis. In 2006, he was honored with the Upper Austrian Landeskulturpreis in the “Film” section. Spielmann is one of the most important contemporary Austrian Film directors. His films The Stranger and Antares were the Austrian candidates for Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Antares has been screened widely at more than thirty International Film Festivals. Spielmann is on the committee of the Verband der Filmregisseure Österreichs (the Association of the Austrian film directors). In the Linzer Kammerspiele (Linz, Upper Austria) he made his debut as Theatre Director with the performance of the play Der einsame Weg, written by Arthur Schnitzler. For the season 2006/2007, he wrote his first play for the theatre, the Landestheatre Linz, Imperium, which was first released on January 5, 2007 at the Linzer Kammerspiele. In January 2009 Spielmann's Revanche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Götz Spielmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 11, 1961 (65)
- Wels, Austria
- Director and writer
- 3 on MovieCove · 22 credits in all
Known for
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Filmography
22 credits, 3 with a MovieCove page; 1 appearance as themselves is hidden until asked for.
Ciao, Czerny, Ciao (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Der Schutzengel(2022)
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films
Südpol (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
October November (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Revanche (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
The Happiness of Others (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Antares(2004)
Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films
Uprising(2001)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Spiel im Morgengrauen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2001)
The Stranger (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2000)
Quintett komplett (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Lovable Lies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1995)
Dieses naive Verlangen (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
The Neighbour (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)
Erwin und Julia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Hund und Katz (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1991)
Sternberg - Shooting Star (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1988)
Vergiss Sneider! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
PARADISE LTD. (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1986)
Abschied von Hölderlin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1985)
Foreign Land (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)
Tod eines Lesenden (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1984)