Biography
David Falko Wnendt (28 September 1977 in Gelsenkirchen) is a German Film director and screenwriter. He gained fame through his multi-award-winning feature film warrior ( 2011 ) and the bestseller adaptation Wetlands, that reached 1 million viewers in the cinemas.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Treasure
2024
Executive Producer
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of ...

Sun and Concrete
2023
Director, Producer, Writer
The four friends Lukas, Julius, Gino and Sanchez are trying to survive the everyday life in Neukölln, Berlin between drugs, gangs, rap, violence and b...

Leif in Concert Vol. 2
2020
as Klempner
It's Lene's first day back at work after some time off. Friends and acquaintances, regulars and strangers come to her jazz and blues bar. While Lene i...

The Sunlit Night
2020
Director
An aspiring painter meets eccentric locals and a fellow New Yorker while working on a barn in Norway.

Look Who's Back
2015
Screenplay, Director
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomen...

Wetlands
2013
Screenplay, Director
Helen is a nonconformist teenage girl who maintains a conflictual relationship with her parents. Hanging out most of her time with her friend Corinna,...
White Lobster
2012
Editor
A Berlinale award nominated short feature.

Combat Girls
2011
Director, Writer
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, f...
Teheran Kitchen
2010
Editor
Between 600 kebab and nagging students we find three cooks and a kitchen help in a small canteen working with wit and irony while doing their duties, ...
Badetag
2004
Director, Writer
A short documentary directed by David Wnendt.
Athos 2643
N/A
Writer, Director
In the distant future, in a monastery on the lonely Neptune moon of Athos, a mysterious crime unfolds. An artificial intelligence responsible for life...