Kaì Wessel
Born in 1961 he worked as assistant director, before directing his first film MARTHAJELLNEK. Aside from family films like THE SUMMER ALBUM and THE TRACE OF THE RED BARREFS, he attracted great attention with the Tv series A LIFE IN GERMANY, adaptation of the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jewish professor of literature . In 2004 he received a Grimme Award for the tv film LIFE WOULD BE NICE. In 2006, Kai Wessel directed the two-part production THE EXPULSION, a historical drama about an East Prussian landowner who flees from the advancing Soviet army. In 2009 he directed HIFDE, an adaptation of the autobiography of Hildegard Knef. In 2013, Kai Wessel was presented with yet another Grimme Award for the innovative real time format A TIME OF HEROES. With FOG IN AUGUST he won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Director in 2016, as well as the German Cinema Award for Peace-The Bridge.