Ulrich Seidl

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.

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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)

Origin

Vienna, Austria

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film producer / writer / cinematographer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

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

• Official sitehttp://www.ulrichseidl.at/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ulrich_seidl_filmproduktion/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Seidl
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AA%E3%83%92%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B6%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112182

Tags

• film director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.