Oliver Hirschbiegel Articles

Naomi Watts as Marilyn Monroe, Blonde Naomi Watts – instead of the previously rumored Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life, The Help) — will play Princess Diana in Oliver Hirschbiegel's Caught in Flight, whose distribution rights are being sold by producing company Ecosse Films at the just-opened Berlin Film Festival, says The Hollywood Reporter. As per the Reporter, production is slated to begin in the U.K. later [...]

DER UNTERGANG / DOWNFALL (2004) Direction: Oliver Hirschbiegel Cast: Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Heino Ferch, Thomas Kretschmann Screenplay: Bernd Eichinger; from Joachim Fest's book Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des Dritten Reiches / Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich and Traudl Junge and Melissa Müller's Bis zur letzten Stunde / Until the Final Hour: [...]

Inspired by a true incident that occurred in Northern Ireland in the mid-1970s, while placing the real-life participants in a fictitious set-up, Five Minutes of Heaven stars Liam Neeson as Alistair Little, the former leader of an Ulster Volunteer Force cell who, as a teenager, shot in the head a young Catholic man, James Griffin, in front of his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin (played by [...]

2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards 2009 Sundance Film Festival: January 15-25, 2009   Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic: Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary: We Live in Public, directed by Ondi Timoner World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic: The Maid (La Nana), directed by Sebastián Silva World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary: Rough Aunties, directed [...]