Christian Petzold
German film director (born 1960)
2.06body-of-work score · ranked #510 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- September 14, 1960 · Hilden
- Nationality
- Germany
- Work
- film director, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
2014 · Germany / Poland · drama
Film Comment year-end poll 2015 #8 · Criterion Collection spine #809
0.482 citations - 20.431 citation
- 30.331 citation
- 40.291 citation
- 50.291 citation
- 60.241 citation
Complete filmography
All 20 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1995Pilotinnen
- 1996Cuba Libre
- 1998Die Beischlafdiebin
- 2000The State I Am In
- 2001Something to Remind Me
- 2003Wolfsburg
- 2005Ghosts
- 2007Yella
- 2008Jerichow
- 2011Etwas Besseres als den Tod
- 2011Schenk mir dein Herz
- 2012Barbara
- 2014Phoenix
- 2015Polizeiruf 110: Kreise
- 2016Polizeiruf 110: Wölfe
- 2018Polizeiruf 110: Tatorte
- 2018Transit
- 2020Undine
- 2023Afire
- 2025Miroirs No. 3