Baran bo Odar
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 German Film Awards 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.
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 Odar at the 2018 Grimme-Preis awards ceremony with his partner, Jantje Friese. | |
| Born | 18 April 1978 |
| Occupation | Film and television director |
| Years active | 2005–present |
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 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 |
| 2021 | 1899 | TV series |
| 2021 | Tyll | TV series |
References
- "Blickpunkt:Film | News | Kinocharts Deutschland: Doppelspitze Sony". www.mediabiz.de (in German). Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- "GERMAN CINEMA: DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN (THE SILENCE, 2010)—The Evening Class Interview With Baran Bo Odar".
- 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.
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