Oliver Hirschbiegel: Oliver Hirschbiegel. Director: The Experiment. Born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1957. In his teens he left high school and worked as a cooker in a boat. Then he studied painting and graphism in the Academy of arts in Hamburg where he also started experimenting with video and photography. Those experimental movies attracted the attention of some producers of the German TV. Hirschbiegel became popular thanks to his tv movies (especially dramas and...
Known For: The Experiment (Director), Downfall (Director), Five Minutes of Heaven (Director), The Invasion (Director(directed by))