Dominik Graf
Dominik Graf (born 6 September 1952) is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, graduating in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films.
Dominik Graf

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Dominik Graf (born 6 September 1952) is a German film director. He studied film direction at University of Television and Film Munich, graduating in 1975. While he has directed several theatrically released feature films since the 1980s, he more often finds work in television, focussing primarily on the genres police drama, thriller and crime mystery, although he has also made comedies, melodramas, documentaries and essay films.
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Dominik Graf (born 1952) is an actor, author and director, among other activities, of German nationality. The actor was born in Munich.
Dominik Graf was educated at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schule Schloss Stein and University of Television and Film Munich. The actor worked for Academy of Media Arts Cologne and Internationale Filmschule Köln and is a member of Academy of Arts, Berlin, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Deutsche Filmakademie.
Languages used include German. Honours include Bavarian Film Awards (Best Director), Bavarian TV Awards and Film Award of the City of Munich, among others.
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He is an active participant in public discourse about the values of genre film in Germany, with numerous articles and interviews published partially in book form. Graf achieved international recognition in 2014 with his film Beloved Sisters, which was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Documentaries 1997: Denk ich an Deutschland … – Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge 2000: München – Geheimnisse einer Stadt 2012: Lawinen der Erinnerung (about Oliver Storz) 2014: Es werde Stadt! 50 Jahre Grimme-Preis in Marl 2015: Was heißt hier Ende? (about Michael Althen) 2016: Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film (co-director: Johannes F. Sievert) 2017: Offene Wunde deutscher Film (co-director: Johannes F. Sievert) 2017: Philip Rosenthal – Der Unternehmer, der nicht an den Kapitalismus glaubte (about Philip Rosenthal)
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Maiden's War (1977), as Pavel Sixta 1+1=3 [de] (1979), as Bernhard Grabowski Danni (1983), as Lothar Father's Day (1996), as Lorenz
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Dominik Graf: Verstörung im Kino. Der Regisseur von Die Sieger im Gespräch mit Stefan Stosch über die Arbeit am Film. Wehrhahn Verlag, Laatzen 1998, 47 S., ISBN 3-932324-51-X Dominik Graf: Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen. Texte zum Film. Hrsg. und mit einem Vorwort von Michael Althen. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89581-210-1 Dominik Graf: Im Angesicht des Verbrechens. Fernseharbeit am Beispiel einer Fernsehserie. Hrsg. Johannes F. Sievert. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89581-221-7 Dominik Graf, Lisa Gotto: Kino unter Druck. Filmkultur hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2021, ISBN 978-3-89581-548-5

Il regista tedesco Dominik Graf alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia del 1993
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Il regista tedesco Dominik Graf alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia del 1993
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Prizes
1980 – Bayerischer Filmpreis in the category Young talents for Der kostbare Gast, his dissertation film at filmschool 1983 – Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival: Special prize Second Sight 1988 – Filmband in Gold (best director) für The Cat 1989 – Fernsehfilmpreis der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste for Tiger, Lion, Panther 1993 – Goldener Gong for Morlock – Die Verflechtung 1995 – Goldener Gong for Tatort: Frau Bu lacht 1997 – Grimme-Preis for Sperling und das Loch in der Wand (zusammen mit Benedict Neuenfels) 1998 – Bayerischer Fernsehpreis, Special prize for the TV films The Scorpion, Dr. Knock and Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge 1998 – Grimme-Preis for Doktor Knock 1998 – Telestar for The Scorpion 1998 – Fernsehfilmpreis der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste for The Scorpion 1999 – Fernsehfilmpreis der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste for Sperling und der brennende Arm 1999 – Grimme-Preis for Denk ich an Deutschland… – Das Wispern im Berg der Dinge 2003 – Grimme-Preis for Friends of Friends 2003 – Filmpreis der Stadt Hof 2004 – Deutscher Fernsehpreis for Cold Spring 2004 – Hans Abich Preis for extraordinary achievement in television drama 2005 – DIVA-Award – Beste Regieleistung des Jahres (Jurypreis) 2006 – Grimme-Preis Gold for Polizeiruf 110 – Der scharlachrote Engel 2007 – At Madrid Móstoles International Film Festival – Best director for The Red Cockatoo 2007 – Grimme-Preis for Polizeiruf 110: Er sollte tot 2007 – Fernsehfilmpreis der Deutschen Akademie der Darstellenden Künste: Special prize for feature film direction for City for Ransom 2008 – Grimme-Preis for City for Ransom 2008 – Filmkunstpreis for The Vow beim Festival des deutschen Films 2010 – Grimme-Preis for Kommissar Süden und der Luftgitarrist 2010 – Schwabinger Kunstpreis 2010 – Star on the Boulevard of Stars in Berlin 2011 – Grimme-Preis for Im Angesicht des Verbrechens 2011 – Bayerischer Fernsehpreis for Im Angesicht des Verbrechens 2011 – Deutscher Regiepreis Metropolis in the category best television director for Im Angesicht des Verbrechens 2012 – Grimme-Preis Spezial for Dreileben 2012 – Hamburger Krimipreis for Polizeiruf 110: Cassandras Warnung
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- 1.Huber, Christoph. Dominik Graf. FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen. 2013.
- 2.Graf, Dominik. Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen. Texte zum Film. Alexander Verlag. 2009. 978-3-89581-210-1.
- 3.OSCARS: Germany Selects Dominik Graf's 'Beloved Sisters' as Academy Award Entry. Variety.
- 4.2007. www.ficmm.com.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Christoph Huber, Olaf Möller: Dominik Graf, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen Vol. 18, Vienna: SYNEMA – Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, 2013,
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