Robert Sigl

Robert Sigl (born July 11, 1962) is a German film director and writer. He attended the Munich Film School from 1981 until 1986. His short film The Christmas Tree was shown at international festivals in Madrid and Berlin.
In 1987 he started preparations for his first full-length motion picture Laurin in Hungary which he also scripted.
Laurin was awarded the Bavarian Film Award for best direction of a newcomer. At the age of 25 Robert Sigl was the youngest director ever to receive this distinction. Laurin was shown at numerous international festivals, including Moscow and Malaga, and was released in Great Britain by the U.K. video label “Eureka Entertainment” and in Spain by “Filmax.” It is currently airing on Canada’s Scream TV and is available in the U.S. on an import DVD from “Luminous Film and Video.”
In the ensuing years Sigl worked on several projects and screenplays before moving on to shoot the acclaimed and sophisticated miniseries Stella Stellaris in Poland, a fairy-tale-like fantasy/comedy/adventure. He also directed the episode "The Lost Daughter" for the extremely popular action series Alarm for Cobra 11 and succeeded in creating an atmosphere that was compared by critics to Twin Peaks.
Both Laurin and Stella Stellaris left a deep impression with Canadian producer Paul Donovan and the executives of U.S. Cable Channel Showtime and Robert Sigl was commissioned to direct one of the four pilot movies – Giga Shadow for the international Science-Fiction-Miniseries Lexx. Giga Shadow featured Hollywood star Malcolm McDowell and a spectacular amount of breathtaking computer generated effects. Lexx was sold into more than one hundred countries. For the third season Robert Sigl returned to direct the episode "K-Town".
He also directed the German horror-thriller School's Out which became one of the most successful TV movies of 1999, its reputation even stretching to the United States where it was subsequently released on DVD and Home Video by Fangoria/MTI. Due to its immense success Sigl was commissioned to direct the sequel The Island of Fear aka: Dead Island - School's Out II (U.S. title) in Brittany, France.
Furthermore he helmed several episodes of the highly acclaimed and award-winning German crime series THE INVESTIGATOR / DER ERMITTLER and SCENE OF THE CRIME / TATORT. His latest TATORT (AVENGING ANGEL) caused an enormous press furore due to an infamous semi-incestuous sex scene between a father and his adopted daughter and stirred up a big discussion about censorship on German television.
Robert Sigl is currently working on other new projects for the big screen, among them THE SPIDER, THE 13th DISCIPLE (both funded by Media 2), MEDUSA (funded by Media Development), LAZARUS (funded by FFA Berlin), THE BLIND ROOM and GOLGATHA.

Filmography

Filmography

ROBERT SIGL Film Director

1982/82 THE CABIN / DIE HÜTTE

                    Drama   Short   also screenplay   35 mm   5 minutes  

1983 THE CHRISTMAS TREE / DER WEIHNACHTSBAUM

                   Drama   Short   also screenplay   35 mm   20 minutes                    Festivals:  Madrid, Berlin a.o.   

1988 LAURIN

                    Thriller /Period Film   Feature Film   35 mm   85 Minuten                     Also screenplay    English Language                     Production Company:  Salinas Film Berlin                     Bavarian Film Award For Best Direction Of A Newcomer   

1994 STELLA STELLARIS

                   Fantasy/Comedy/Adventure   Miniseries   35 mm    250 minutes                    Production Company:  Bavaria Film Munich   

1995 GROSSE FREIHEIT

                   Crime/Thriller   TV Series  3 episodes   135 minutes                    Production Company:  Multimedia Hamburg    

1996 ALARM FOR COBRA 11

                   Action/Thriller   TV Series   1 episode:  „The Lost Daughter“                    Produktion:  Polyphon Berlin für RTL 

1996 LEXX – THE DARK ZONE / GIGA SHADOW

                   Starring:  Malcolm McDowell                    Science Fiction/Black Comedy                     TV Movie for SHOWTIME USA   35 mm    94 minutes                    English Language    

1997/98 GHOSTHUNTER JOHN SINCLAIR

                  Horror   Miniseries   35 mm   3 episodes    135 Minutes                   „Anruf aus dem Jenseits“, „Horror-Kabinett“, „Der Sensenmann“   

1998/99 SCHOOL´S OUT

                   Horror/Thriller   Feature Film   93 Minuten                    US-Distribution:  Fangoria/MTI   

1999 LEXX - THE SERIES

                   Episode 3.06  „K-Town“   for SCI-FI-Channel USA                    English Language    

2000 THE ISLAND OF FEAR (in USA: DEAD ISLAND)

                   Psycho-Thriller    Feature Film   95 minutes      

2001 SCENE OF THE CRIME (TATORT) - TARGET

                  Crime/Mystery/Thriller   TV Movie   90 Minutes                   Production Company:  Telefilm Saar   

2002/05 THE INVESTIGATOR / DER ERMITTLER

                   Crime/Mystery    TV Series  (German TV Award)  2 x 60 minutes                    Episodes:  “Sender unknown” & “Welcome To Hell”                    Production Company:  Monaco/Odeon Film    

2005 SCENE OF THE CRIME (TATORT) – AVENGING ANGEL

                   Crime/Mystery/Thriller   TV Movie   90 minutes                    Produktion:  Telefilm Saar for Degeto/ARD               

2006 Script Funding for the First-World-War-Drama LAZARUS

2007 Script Funding for the Fantasy-Movie WURDILAK THE SOUL CATCHER

2008/11 SPECIAL SQUAD VIENNA / SOKO WIEN

                    Crime/Mystery   TV Series   11 x 45 minutes                     Episodes:   “Murderous Secret”, “The Ice Princess”, “Appearances Are                       Deceiving”, “Evil Magic”, “Price Of Beauty”, “Fallen Angels”, “BlindTraces”                     Production:  SATEL Film for ORF/ZDF   

2009/10 HEPZIBAH

                    Thriller/Horror/Mystery   Feature Film    93 minutes                     Starring:  Eleanor Tomlinson (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, JACK THE GIANT KILLER),                     David Bamber (VALKYRIE), Finn Atkins (EDEN LAKE),                     Murray Melvin (THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, BARRY LYNDON)                     A UFA Film Production for SevenOne International / ProSieben                     English Language 

in Pre-Production:

2012 THE SPIDER

                 Supernatural Thriller/Adventure  Feature Film                    35 mm/Stereoscopic  100 minutes                 Also co-screenplay with Leo Gough                  European Script Fund Award                  Script funded by Media2                  Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Brando, Andy Serkis,                 Eleanor Tomlinson a.o.                  Original Soundtrack by Howard Shore                  A Cinewerx Production   

Next projects and commissions:

MEDUSA Thriller Feature Film Also screenplay Script funded by FFF FilmFernsehFonds Bavaria and MEDIA

LAZARUS First-World-War-Drama Feature Film Also screenplay Script funded by FFA Filmförderungsanstalt (de)

GOLGATHA Horror/Thriller Feature Film Also screenplay Production Company: Shotgun Pictures

THE BLIND ROOM Psychological Thriller Feature Film Also screenplay

THE 13th DISCIPLE Adventure/Action/Occult Thriller Feature Film Also co-screenplay with Leo Gough Script funded by Media 2 and FFA Filmförderungsanstalt

WURDILAK Fantasy Feature Film Script funded by FFA Filmförderungsanstalt Also screenplay

THE BOY WITH THE PINK TRIANGLE aka: PINK TRIANGLE JEW Holocaust-Drama Feature Film Also screenplay