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Baran bo Odar
Odar at the 2018 Grimme-Preis awards ceremony with his partner, Jantje Friese.
Born (1978-04-18) 18 April 1978 (age 46)
Olten, Switzerland
Occupation(s)Film and television director
Years active2005–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 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.

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 announced.[5]

Selected filmography

Year Title Notes
2017–present Dark TV series
2017 Sleepless
2014 Who Am I – No System Is Safe
2010 The Silence

References

  1. ^ "Blickpunkt:Film | News | Kinocharts Deutschland: Doppelspitze Sony". www.mediabiz.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-25.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ https://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2011/11/german-cinema-das-letzte-schweigen.html?m=1. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ Dark (TV Series 2017– ) - IMDb, retrieved 2019-06-25
  4. ^ "Dark (Netflix)". www.grimme-preis.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  5. ^ Nguyen, Hanh; Nguyen, Hanh (2019-06-23). "'Dark': Season 2's Insane Ending and All the Burning Questions Season 3 Needs to Answer". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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