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Director
Christian Petzold
Defining Films
Profile
The cinema of waiting, watching, and the spaces between words. Petzold builds suspense from ambiguity — his characters haunted by pasts they cannot articulate, his frames taut with what remains unsaid. German precision married to Hitchcockian dread, but the threat is always internal.
Critical Essay (Excerpt)
Christian Petzold
In Their Own Words
I wanted to make a summer movie like an Éric Rohmer film, where people are walking, talking, eating, and drinking. Chekhov was one of the first inspirations for Afire.
On Afire · MUBI Notebook - 'Afire: An Interview with Christian Petzold'
Filmography (25)
Miroirs No. 3
Something to Remind Me
The State I Am In
The Warm Money
Glory and Misery of the Gifted
Glory and Misery of the Gifted
I'm Working Through Everything... Word of Honor!
Mission
Afire
Undine
Transit
Where Do You Stand Today, Christian Petzold?
Phoenix
Barbara
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead
Jerichow
Yella
Ghosts
Wolfsburg
The Sex Thief
Cuba Libre
Pilots
Deduction
Eastward
South
Broads