Birthday: 1973-05-02 Born in: Cologne, Germany Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (born May 2, 1973) is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others and the 2010 film The Tourist.
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The Tourist
American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elsie on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.