Philip Gröning

Philip GRÖNING (1959, Germany) grew up partly in the United States. He studied medicine and psychology before focusing on making films in 1982. He attended film school in Munich and worked on film and television productions in several capacities. Since 1986, he has run his own production company. Gröning (Into Great Silence, 2005) lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

Filmography

Vom Trockenschwimmer/The Swimmer (1983, short), Das letzte Bild/The Last Picture Taken (1983, doc), Sommer/Summer (1986), Stachoviak! (1988, short), Die Terroristen!/The Terrorists! (1992), Opfer. Zeugen/Victims. Witnesses (1993, doc), L'amour, l'argent, l'amour (2000), Die große Stille/Into Great Silence (2005), Die Frau des Polizisten/The Police Officer’s Wife (2013)