Matti Geschonneck

Matti Geschonneck, born on 8 May 1952 in Potsdam, is a German film director who works across television and cinema. He is the son of the East German actor Erwin Geschonneck and studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, but was pulled from his studies and lost his party membership after supporting the dissident Wolf Biermann in 1976. He moved to West Germany in 1978, worked as an assistant director, and released his first feature, Moebius, in 1992, followed by episodes of the crime series Tatort and many television films. His feature Boxhagener Platz (2010) premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was one of eight films shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year, and In Times of Fading Light (2017) premiered at the 67th Berlin festival. His 2022 television film Die Wannseekonferenz, about the 1942 conference that planned the Holocaust, received multiple recognitions.