Anno Saul

Born in Bonn, West Germany, the son of a physician, Saul studied at the Peter-Joerres-Gymnasium in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and afterwards, graduating from the Munich School of Philosophy, and then, from 1985 to 1990, filmed a feature film at the University of Television and Film Munich. In 1987, he created a Bayerischer Rundfunk teleplay.

In 1991, Saul received the Max Ophüls film festival prize for the film Unter Freunden. After several television films, he filmed his feature film debut, Grüne Wüste ("Green Desert"), in 1998 with Martina Gedeck. After his television film Novizin, he directed his second feature film, Kebab Connection, based on a book by Fatih Akin, Ruth Thoma and Jan Berger. In 2006, he directed the movie Where Is Fred? with Til Schweiger, Jürgen Vogel, Christoph Maria Herbst, and Alexandra Maria Lara. This was followed in 2009 by the mystery thriller The Door with Mads Mikkelsen, Jessica Schwarz, and Thomas Thieme.{{cite web | last=Petkovic | first=Vladan | title=Anno Saul's The Door wins top prize at Tromso | website=Screen | date=15 September 2024 | url=https://www.screendaily.com/anno-sauls-the-door-wins-top-prize-at-tromso/5009976.article | access-date=15 September 2024}} In 2013, he also directed the comedy Therapy Crashers with Marie Bäumer, Milan Peschel, Fahri Yardım, and Josefine Preuß.

Saul was a lecturer at the Internationale Filmschule Köln. Since 2010, he has been a full member of the board of directors of the Deutsche Filmakademie in the field of directing. He lives in Berlin.

• 1991: Max-Ophüls-Preis for Unter Freunden
• Publikumspreis at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, United States, for Grüne Wüste
• 2010: Hauptpreis "Best Picture" at the Tromsø International Film Festival for The Door
• 2010: "Le Grand Prix" at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer for The Door
• 2010: The "Silver Melias" at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival for The Door

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• 1990: Unter Freunden (short)
• 1996: Und morgen fängt das Leben an (TV film)
• 1997: Alte Liebe, alte Sünde (TV film)
• 1998: Blind Date – Flirt mit Folgen (TV film)
• 1998: Zur Zeit zu zweit (TV film)
• 1999: Grüne Wüste
• 2002: Die Novizin (TV film)
• 2005: Kebab Connection{{cite book | last1=Hake | first1=S. | last2=Mennel | first2=B. | title=Turkish German Cinema in the New Millennium: Sites, Sounds, and Screens | publisher=Berghahn Books | series=Berghahn Series | year=2012 | isbn=978-0-85745-768-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YkLdiwn8G8YC&pg=PA7 | access-date=15 September 2024 | page=7}}{{cite book | last=Simpson | first=P.A. | title=Cultures of Violence in the New German Street | publisher=University Press Copublishing Division | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-61147-456-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6IvpBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA158 | access-date=15 September 2024 | page=158}}{{cite journal |last1=Ebert |first1=Reika |last2=Beck |first2=Ann |title="Kebab Connection": Tragic and Comedic Explorations of Contemporary German-Turkish Relations |journal=Colloquia Germanica |date=2007 |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=87–98 |jstor=23981920 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23981920 |access-date=15 September 2024}}
• 2006: Where Is Fred?
• 2007–2014: Der Kommissar und das Meer (TV series, 7 episodes, including pilot)
• 2009: The Door
• 2011–2015: Reiff für die Insel (TV series, 3 episodes, including pilot)
• 2014: Therapy Crashers
• 2013–2018: Nord Nord Mord (TV series, 5 episodes)
• 2016–2017: München Mord (TV series, 3 episodes)
• 2019: Charité (TV series, 6 episodes){{cite web | title="Charité"-Regisseur Anno Saul recherchiert für seinen neuen Film am EK in Ravensburg | website=Regionale und lokale Nachrichten aus Baden-Württemberg | date=24 February 2021 | url=https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/oberschwaben/ravensburg/charite-regisseur-recherchiert-fuer-film-am-ek-156298 | language=de | access-date=15 September 2024}}{{cite book | last1=Ehrig | first1=S. | last2=Schaper | first2=B. | last3=Ward | first3=E. | title=Between the Forest and the Road: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film | publisher=Berghahn Books | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-80539-057-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DNmvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA162 | access-date=15 September 2024 | page=162}}

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• {{IMDb name|0766649|Anno Saul}}
• [http://www.filmportal.de/person/anno-saul_777f9286c2854d1b9e8649b105786723 Anno Saul] at filmportal.de
• [https://www.crew-united.com/index.asp?show=memberdetail&ID=4610 Anno Saul] at Crew United

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