Edward Berger (Directing)

Edward Berger (born June 25, 1970) is a West German-born Austrian and Swiss director and screenwriter. He is known for the German films Jack (2014), All My Loving (2019), and All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), which won numerous international awards, including the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, as well as for the English TV series Patrick Melrose(2018) and film Conclave (2024). Edward Berger was born in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, then West Germany, where he graduated from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium. He holds Swiss citizenship as his mother was from Switzerland and Austrian citizenship through his father. He grew up in a middle-class family with three siblings. His father worked as a logistics manager at Volkswagen. After graduating from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium, he lived in Paris for a few months. He earned his living by selling T-shirts at rock concerts. He had already developed a passion for cinema in his early youth; he lived above a cinema in Paris. He attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig from 1990 to 1991. Then, he transferred to the Tisch School of...Read More