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From http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/oscars/articles/2007/02/10/oscar_nominated_german_director_no_wunderkind

Oscar-nominated German director 'no wunderkind'

By Christine Kearney
February 9, 2007

NEW YORK (Reuters) - German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who has impressed critics worldwide with his Oscar-nominated debut feature film "The Lives of Others," modestly says that compared to say, Orson Welles, he is no wunderkind.

The 33-year-old director had already received awards and rave reviews before his film, set in East Berlin in the 1980s, was nominated for best foreign-language Oscar. It was released in the United States this week.

Von Donnersmarck's film has been hailed as an intelligent, honest look at how East Germany's Stasi security police shattered lives. The New Yorker magazine commented this week that "if there is any justice" the Academy Award would go to von Donnersmarck, "of whom we have every right to be jealous."

Read the entire article at http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/oscars/articles/2007/02/10/oscar_nominated_german_director_no_wunderkind .

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