Philipp Kadelbach (born 9 September 1974,

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) is a German film and television director. In discussing Kadelbach, actor

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stated "He's in the top five of the 116 directors I've worked with. He helps young people and experienced actors - and he lets us make mistakes".

Career

Philipp Kadelbach attended the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' School of Film, Photography, and Digital Media and at the same time worked for the German local television channel WQED. From 1995 onwards he worked as the head of Avid Digital Editing at Neue Sentimental Film, a Frankfurt advertising agency, followed by the

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. His directing debut was the short film ''Platonische Liebe'' ( FBW-Prädikat: Wertvoll) in 1998/99, for which he was also screenwriter and film editor. Its music is by his younger brother, the film composer Michael Kadelbach and

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. It won the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Kurzfilmpreis 2000. It also appeared at the 1999

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(under the title ''Platonic Love''), the 1999

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, the Berlinale 2000 and on the

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channel. Kadelbach's next short film was the 2001/02 ''2 Fläschchen''. He has directed over 300 national and international adverts for BMW, VW, Mercedes, Hornbach,

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- when he and his cameraman Thomas Dirnhofer make advertising films, they use the joint pseudonym Begbie. He produced the crime series ''

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'' for , also directing the first four episodes. His first TV film was the

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two-parter '' Das Geheimnis der Wale'' with

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and

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. In the second half of 2009 he filmed '' Hindenburg: The Last Flight'' for and RTL, covering the

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and starring Max Simonischek,

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and

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. ''Hindenburg: The Last Flight'' won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2011 for best series. In March 2011 shooting began on ''Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter'' (released in the UK as ''

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''), a three-parter for ZDF. Kadelbach replaced

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as its director partway through filming and the film won the Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2013 for best series, the Goldene Kamera 2014 for best TV film and the 2004

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2014. In June 2015 he began shooting '' SS-GB'', a five-part adaptation of the novel of the same title by

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- this premiered in February 2017 on

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and made him the first German director of a BBC Films series made exclusively for UK release.

Filmography

* 1999: ''Platonische Liebe'' (short film) * 2004: ''

'' (TV series, 4 episodes) * 2010: '' Das Geheimnis der Wale'' (TV film) * 2011: ' (TV film) * 2013: ''

'' (''Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter'', TV miniseries) * 2014: ''

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'' (TV film) * 2015: '' Naked Among Wolves'' (''Nackt unter Wölfen'', TV film) * 2016: ' (TV film) * 2017: '' SS-GB'' (TV miniseries) * 2017: ''

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'' (TV series, 2 episodes) * 2018: ''So viel Zeit'' * 2018: ''

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'' (''Parfum'', TV miniseries)

Awards

* 2007: VDW Award, ''Starke Kinder'', commercial for

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Preisträger VDW Award 2007
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References

External links

* *http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/ss-gb/kadelbach {{DEFAULTSORT:Kadelbach, Philipp Living people 1974 births Film people from Frankfurt Mass media people from Hesse