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My Take
Seidl is the kind of filmmaker I trust precisely because he refuses to comfort you. Trained at Vienna's music academy, he instead built a body of work staring straight at human ugliness and longing, blurring fiction and documentary until you can't tell where one ends. The Venice Grand Jury Prize for Dog Days and the Cannes and Venice runs of the Paradise trilogy aren't accidents; they reward a director with nerve. What impresses me most is that, born in 1952, he's still winning Austrian Film Awards into the 2020s. His cinema leaves you uneasy, and I think that discomfort is exactly the point.
Overview
Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film Dog Days won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001. His 2012 film Paradise: Love competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. The sequel Paradise: Faith won the Special Jury Prize at the 69th Venice International Film Festival.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Ulrich Seidl
- Name (Japanese)
- ウルリヒ・ザイドル
- Reading
- うるりひ・ざいどる
- Born
- November 24, 1952 (age 73)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Sagittarius / Dragon
- Origin
- Vienna, Austria
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film director / screenwriter / film producer / writer / cinematographer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Awards & achievements
- Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the State of Vienna
- Austrian Film Award
- 2024 Austrian Film Award for Best Feature Film
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.