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Born and raised in Magdeburg (Germany), Frank Giering gained first stage experience as a background actor at the former known "Maxim-Gorki" theatre Magdeburg". During this time the desire arose to become an actor even though he said at a later time, that this desire was mainly animated due to his hunger to get visible and noticed combined with the unrealistic belief to get more interesting for the womankind.
Nevertheless he started his studies at the "Westfälischen Schauspielschule Bochum" (Germany) but changed short time after to the "Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen" (HFF) in Potsdam Babelsberg (Germany). But again he felt quite uncomfortable with the education methods. Some exercises led him to his physical and mental limits. Furthermore he failed on his teacher's demands to "fill up the space of the theatre". As he realized that he clenched more and more as soon as he got instructions to "give more" or to become "louder" he decided to break off. In front of the film camera - he was able to live out his own belief of acting which was the opposite of the requirements at school. He loved to reduce and to express feelings solely by glances and a minimum of gestures and facial expression. According to his teachers in the theatre he was only able to catch the first row. But now he met the facility - not to gain the last rows by broaden himself - but to bring them closer using the camera. At last he felt like coming home. With his first role he gained the attention of the Austrian director Michael Haneke, who cast him for two of his productions. After the Kafka adaption The Castle (1997), Giering starred the cine film Funny Games (1997). With the figure of the sadistic murderer he became popular over night.
The final breakthrough followed 1999 with his performance as Floyd in Gigantic (1999) by Sebastian Schipper, a small but particular film about friendship, longing and farewell and a very last but magic night in Hamburg. For a short time he was announced as one of the promising up-and-coming actors of Germany. Comparisons were drawn with James Dean, much less due to similarities in visual nature but due to an aura of "lostness" and lonesomeness which both actors surrounded.
Frank Giering died on 23th of June 2010. The official cause of dead is given by multiple organ failure due to an acute bilious colic. On 9th of July 2010 he was buried at the "Neustädter Friedhof" in Magdeburg (Germany).
Most Popular Frank Giering Trailers
Total trailers found: 43
01 January 1998
The story revolves around the lives of a group of international fashion models, focusing on the main character, Fabrice.
15 March 1998
The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media.
11 September 1997
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
10 November 2003
"Dirty Sky" tells a gruesome tale of our time with a double finale: once the eternally classic love story of Romeo and Juliet in the guise of Bonnie and Clyde substance, as bloody road movie.
25 October 2006
Stories of the Berlin city life, separated into five episodes. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money.
01 July 2003
Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of the Alps her family lives on the lonely farm “Hierankl”.
30 September 1999
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants.
24 January 2001
Psychologist Luisa, unable to heal herself, retreats to an East Frisian island for peace, only to encounter her former love Robert and be drawn into a local murder mystery.
24 December 1998
Two young and attractive social workers/nuns bring fresh air into a city missionary station, but are also challenged by lust and money, offered by a millionaire.
11 February 2004
A young couple in Berlin's 'Mitte' district. He, a writer, is lying on the sofa, reading. She can't stand it anymore.
17 November 2008
During demolition work in a village in northern Germany, a cemented-in corpse is discovered in the wall of a building.
23 November 2003
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertize, and help his handicap brother Willi Hauser.
25 May 2001
Nick, an actor, is a clown in traffic, hoping for better times. Charlie, Robin’s mother, is in a police car, about to go to jail, desperate to escape with her son.
27 August 1998
The film is a comedy centering on the lives of eight Germans who long for sexual excitement.
10 November 2002
Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell.
06 September 1997
When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter.
17 June 2005
It all starts with a mistake. The wealthy Polina finds a sleeping man in her hotel room, the business lawyer Friedrich.
20 December 2002
The crook Vincent loves Mona, the daughter of a policeman. When Mona's father finds out what Vincent does for a living, he puts him behind bars.
01 January 2002
The couple Hanna and Georg are overjoyed when Hanna finally gets pregnant, but things take a turn for the worst when Georg's father demands that abortion be performed because of a hereditary defect in his family.
02 January 2000
A short by Maren Ade.
17 November 2000
Nick and Henry are supposed to receive a package of drugs from Maria and then deliver it to their boss.
08 July 1998
The Wolters have lived with the Grabowskis as neighbors for 10 years. But everything suddenly comes to an end.
27 November 2006
When Tina arrives at home, another young woman has just been murdered in the village - the third vicr
15 April 2006
The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery.
09 November 2000
Three jailers, a wheelchaired man and a mentally handicapped girl climb a mountain in the alps along with their supervisors.
02 January 2010
A man had a donkey that had carried the sacks to the mill for many years, but whose strength was now coming to an end, so that he became increasingly unfit for work.
01 January 2007
For a moment the otherwise proper station master Thomas Hudetz is distracted by Anna's flirtatious behavior.
29 May 2008
New Year's Eve, shortly after five. Ten travelers have missed the last ferry to Copenhagen and are lured aboard the small steamer "Esperanza" by the stewardess.
02 March 2000
Tells the story of a group of gangsters hiding out in a vacation-bungalow who get more than they bargained for.
18 November 2000
She is the star of her TV show. Live and night after night. She embodies the feeling of being invincible.
11 March 2010
Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.
15 September 2009
13-year-old Becky is not only the eldest sister for her three siblings, but also a surrogate mother, since the actual mother is mainly devoted to alcohol, the constantly running television and changing male acquaintances.
04 June 2004
Johanna, a librarian who was recently abandoned by her partner, has stopped her car at a railroad crossing to end her life.
17 March 2003
Tragicomic, the hero entangled in a strange, strange world. In addition, Armin Rohde rumbles in use for fun and hilarious commission through the scenery.
