---
name: "Christian Schwochow"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/christian-schwochow"
fi1m_id: "christian-schwochow"
imdb_id: "nm2275000"
tmdb_id: 72842
wikidata_id: "Q1081838"
roles: ["Director","Producer"]
born: "23 September 1978"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T12:10:53.493051+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Christian Schwochow

## Identity

Christian Schwochow

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/christian-schwochow
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** christian-schwochow
- **IMDb ID:** nm2275000
- **TMDB ID:** 72842
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1081838
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schwochow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1081838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72842

Director and producer. Born 23 September 1978 in Bergen auf Rügen, Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer
- **Born:** 23 September 1978, Bergen auf Rügen, Germany
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 77, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 78 (1), 2020s 76 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Schwochow, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1081838, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2275000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72842

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Crown*](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md) (78)
- **Apple TV:** [*Last Seen*](https://film.one/tv/last-seen.md) (76)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Christian Schwochow is a German film and television director. Born on 23 September 1978 in Bergen auf Rügen, East Germany, he grew up in Leipzig, East Berlin and Hanover. His mother, Heide Schwochow, is a journalist and screenwriter. He worked as a journalist and reporter before studying film direction at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, graduating with the feature *Novemberkind* (2008).

Schwochow has directed episodes of the Netflix series *The Crown* in seasons 3, 5 and 6, serving as lead director and executive producer on the sixth and final season. His other credits include the feature films *Paula* (2016), *The German Lesson* (2019), *Je suis Karl* (2021) and *Munich – The Edge of War* (2021), as well as the series *Bad Banks* (2018). He received an Emmy nomination as executive producer on *The Crown*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, curtisbrown.co.uk, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Last Seen* (2026), Fi1m 76, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/last-seen.md)
- *The Crown* (2016), Fi1m 78, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Last Seen* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/last-seen.md)
- *Munich - The Edge of War* (2021), Director
- *Je suis Karl* (2021), Director
- *The German Lesson* (2019), Director
- *Bad Banks* (2018), series, Director, Creator
- *Paula* (2016), Director
- *The Crown* (2016), series, Director, Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *NSU German History X* (2016), series, Director
- *Die Pfeiler der Macht* (2016), series, Director
- *Open the Wall* (2014), Director
- *West* (2013), Director
- *Move* (2012), as WG-Bewerber
- *The Tower* (2012), series, Director
- *Cracks in the Shell* (2012), Director, Writer
- *November Child* (2008), Director, Screenplay
- *Marta und der fliegende Großvater* (2006), Director
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Director
- *Hamburg Days*, series, Creator

## Gallery

- ![Christian Schwochow](https://film.one/media/person/152676/gallery-662bc43015ca.jpg) Christian Schwochow — Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2019-01-31-Christian_Schwochow-DFP_2019-4673.jpg/1280px-2019-01-31-Christian_Schwochow-DFP_2019-4673.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Matthias Brandt und Christian Schwochow bei der Grimme-Preis-Verleihung 2015](https://film.one/media/person/152676/gallery-1783d1641899.jpg) Matthias Brandt und Christian Schwochow bei der Grimme-Preis-Verleihung 2015 — JCS, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Grimme-Preis_2015_-_Brandt_Schwochow_1.JPG/1280px-Grimme-Preis_2015_-_Brandt_Schwochow_1.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2019.](https://film.one/media/person/152676/gallery-258da0896900.jpg) Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2019. — Krd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Grimmepreis_2019_026.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2019_026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2019.](https://film.one/media/person/152676/gallery-753446aa54f1.jpg) Verleihung des Grimme-Preises 2019. — Krd, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Grimmepreis_2019_027.jpg/1280px-Grimmepreis_2019_027.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Paula Beer, Lisa Blumenberg und Christian Schwochow beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis 2018](https://film.one/media/person/152676/gallery-45229944e860.jpg) Paula Beer, Lisa Blumenberg und Christian Schwochow beim Hessischen Film- und Kinopreis 2018 — JCS, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Hessischer_Filmpreis_2018_-_Paula_Beer_-_Lisa_Blumenberg_-_Christian_Schwochow.JPG/1280px-Hessischer_Filmpreis_2018_-_Paula_Beer_-_Lisa_Blumenberg_-_Christian_Schwochow.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Bavarian TV Awards 2018: Bavarian TV Awards (won), for *Bad Banks*
- Bavarian TV Awards 2017: Bavarian TV Awards (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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