Baran bo Odar

Baran bo Odar (born 18 April 1978) is a German film and television director and screenwriter. His film Who Am I – No System Is Safe reached the top of the German cinema charts[1] and was nominated for German Film Awards for Best Fiction Feature Film and Best Screenplay. Odar directed and co-wrote the film with his partner Jantje Friese. Odar was born in Switzerland and is of Turkish origin from his mother and of Russian origin from his paternal grandfather, a former doctor who had to flee Russia after the October Revolution.[2] Bo is his nickname.

Baran bo Odar
Odar at the 2018 Grimme-Preis awards ceremony with his partner, Jantje Friese.
Born (1978-04-18) 18 April 1978
Olten, Switzerland
OccupationFilm and television director
Years active2005–present

The TV series Dark, which Odar co-created with Friese, gained popularity worldwide and was Netflix's first German-language original series. Every episode is co-written by Friese, and directed by Odar.[3] Odar was honored with a Grimme-Preis, Germany's most prestigious television award, in 2018 for his direction in Dark season 1.[4] In 2019 Dark's second season was released and its third season was released in 2020.[5] Dark a web series which was first released in 2017 became one the best among other German's series

Selected filmography
Year Title Notes
2010 The Silence
2014 Who Am I – No System Is Safe
2017 Sleepless
2017–2020 Dark TV series
2021 1899 TV series

References
  1. "Blickpunkt:Film | News | Kinocharts Deutschland: Doppelspitze Sony". www.mediabiz.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  2. "GERMAN CINEMA: DAS LETZTE SCHWEIGEN (THE SILENCE, 2010)—The Evening Class Interview With Baran Bo Odar".
  3. Dark (TV Series 2017– ) - IMDb, retrieved 2019-06-25
  4. "Dark (Netflix)". www.grimme-preis.de (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-25.
  5. Nguyen, Hanh; Nguyen, Hanh (2019-06-23). "'Dark': Season 2's Insane Ending and All the Burning Questions Season 3 Needs to Answer". IndieWire. Retrieved 2019-06-25.
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