Christian Zübert Explained

Christian Zübert (born 1973, Würzburg) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Career

Zübert started out as a screenwriter for German television. In 2000 he directed and wrote his first feature Lammbock, which was a surprise hit in Germany with over one million admissions. That same year he wrote the script for Mädchen, Mädchen, which was a box office hit.

In 2004, he directed the children's adventure movie which received many awards and played numerous international festivals. After directing and writing award-winning movies and series for television, e.g. the Tatort crime thriller ,^[1] Zübert returned to the big screen in 2010 with the comedy-drama Dreiviertelmond (Three Quarter Moon), which was nominated for the German Film Award, won the Bavarian Film Award and the Director's Guild of Germany Metropolis Award and was screened in many international festivals.

His 2013 effort Tour de Force had its premiere on the Grand Piazza of the Locarno International Film Festival^[2] and its North American Premiere on the Toronto International Film Festival, where he returned the following year with his German-Greek drama One Breath.^[3]

Selected filmography

Director

• Lammbock (2001)
• Echte Männer? (2003, TV film)
• Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht (2003, TV series, 3 episodes)
• (2005)
• Hardcover (2008)
• KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst (2010, TV series, 3 episodes)
• Tatort: (2010, TV series episode)
• Three Quarter Moon (2011)
• Tour de Force (2014)
• One Breath (2015)
• Lommbock (2017)
• (2018, TV series, 6 episodes)
• Bad Banks (2020, TV series, 6 episodes)

Screenwriter

• Der Clown (1998–2001, TV series, 15 episodes)
• Mädchen, Mädchen (dir. Dennis Gansel, 2001)
• Lammbock (dir. Christian Zübert, 2001)
• Absolut das Leben (2002–2006, TV series, 10 episodes)
• Echte Männer? (dir. Christian Zübert, 2003, TV film)
• (dir. Christian Zübert, 2005)
• (dir., 2006, TV film)
• Vollidiot (dir., 2007) — based on a novel by Tommy Jaud
• (dir., 2008) — based on The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle by Kurt Held
• Don Quixote (dir., 2008, TV film)
• Hardcover (dir. Christian Zübert, 2008)
• (dir., 2009)
• (dir. Hermine Huntgeburth, 2010, TV film) — based on a novel by Sven Regener
• Three Quarter Moon (dir. Christian Zübert, 2011)
• (dir., 2013) — based on a novel by
• One Breath (dir. Christian Zübert, 2015)
• Lommbock (dir. Christian Zübert, 2017)
• The Collini Case (dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner, 2019) — based on a novel by Ferdinand von Schirach

External links

• Agency profile of Christian Zübert

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian Zübert biography . festivalscope.com . February 1, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150617012731/https://www.festivalscope.com/director/zubert-christian . June 17, 2015 . dead .
2. Web site: TIFF Adds 'Clouds of Sils Maria' and 'Two Days, One Night,' Reveals 5 More Lineups . 28 August 2014 . Indiewire.
3. Web site: One Breath – Ein Atem . tiff.net . February 1, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115418/http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/contemporaryworldcinema/one-breath . March 4, 2016 . dead .