Baran bo Odar
Baran bo Odar | |
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![]() Odar in 2018 | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation | Film and television director |
Years active | 2005–present |
Baran bo Odar (born 18 April 1978) is a German film and television director and screenwriter. His film Who Am I – No System Is Safe reached the top of the German cinema charts[1] and was nominated for a German Film Award for Best Fiction Feature Film and Best Screenplay. Odar directed and co-wrote the film with his partner Jantje Friese.
Odar was born in Switzerland and is of Turkish origin from his mother and of Russian origin from his paternal grandfather, a former doctor who had to flee Russia after the October Revolution.[2] Bo is his nickname.
The TV series Dark, which Odar co-created with Friese, gained popularity worldwide and was Netflix's first German-language original series. Every episode is co-written by Friese, and directed by Odar.[3] Odar was honored with a Grimme-Preis, Germany's most prestigious television award, in 2018 for his direction in Dark season 1.[4] In 2019, Dark's second season was released and its third and final season was released in 2020.[5]
Selected filmography[]
Year | Title | Notes |
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2010 | The Silence | |
2014 | Who Am I – No System Is Safe | |
2017 | Sleepless | |
2017–2020 | Dark | TV series |
2022 | 1899 | TV series |
2021 | Tyll | TV series |
References[]
- ^ "Blickpunkt:Film | News | Kinocharts Deutschland: Doppelspitze Sony". www.mediabiz.de (in German). Retrieved 25 June 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "GERMAN CINEMA: DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN (THE SILENCE, 2010)—The Evening Class Interview With Baran Bo Odar". 3 November 2011.
- ^ Dark (TV Series 2017– ) – IMDb, retrieved 25 June 2019
- ^ "Dark (Netflix)". www.grimme-preis.de (in German). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Nguyen, Hanh (23 June 2019). "'Dark': Season 2's Insane Ending and All the Burning Questions Season 3 Needs to Answer". IndieWire. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
External links[]
- 1978 births
- Living people
- German people of Russian descent
- German people of Turkish descent
- Swiss film directors
- Swiss screenwriters