--- name: "Dominik Moll" canonical: "https://film.one/person/dominik-moll" fi1m_id: "dominik-moll" imdb_id: "nm0596962" tmdb_id: 18175 wikidata_id: "Q722352" roles: ["Director"] born: "7 May 1962" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-22T03:05:33.377636+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." --- # Dominik Moll ## Identity Dominik Moll - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dominik-moll - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** dominik-moll - **IMDb ID:** nm0596962 - **TMDB ID:** 18175 - **Wikidata ID:** Q722352 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Moll, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0596962/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18175 Director. Born 7 May 1962 in Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 7 May 1962, Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Moll, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q722352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0596962/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18175 ## Fi1m on Dominik Moll > Dominik Moll makes patient, absorbing thrillers, with a particular gift for making investigative work matter. His precision earns our attention, though his dialogue sometimes explains what the evidence has already made clear. The metro sequence in *Case 137* (2025) briefly quickens a film built around patient police work. Moll organises it for immediate suspense, but the slower inquiry is absorbing enough not to need regular jolts. He makes the routine of investigating misconduct worth watching in its own right. This is a good procedural, directed with a clear sense of where our attention belongs. We were gripped by the examination of evidence, which made the passages explaining its significance frustrating. Moll's early thrillers, *With a Friend Like Harry...* (2000) and *Lemming* (2005), found psychological unease beneath comfortable middle-class lives. Both were written with Gilles Marchand, a regular collaborator through the later move towards grounded police procedurals. *Only the Animals* (2019) built its mystery from interlocking stories. With *The Night of the 12th* (2022), the daily work of investigators became central. The later films retain the earlier interest in suspense, but spend more time on how institutions work and what gets in the way of an investigation. In *Case 137*, Moll and Marchand give the investigator a difficulty that cannot be settled simply by identifying the officers involved. She works for the organisation whose conduct she is examining, and that organisation has reasons to resist her work. Léa Drucker's restrained performance keeps the inquiry steady without competing with its detail. Moll is strongest when he lets that conflict emerge through the work itself, rather than stopping to tell us how serious it is. The reservation is straightforward: Moll sometimes explains too much. In *Case 137*, discussions of policing repeat points the investigation has already established, and the tension slackens. A firmer cut would help the film trust the attention its investigative scenes have earned. Start there if the small advances of a patient inquiry are your sort of suspense, with some tolerance for a director who occasionally checks that everyone has understood. ## Biography Dominik Moll is a German-French film director and screenwriter. Born on 7 May 1962 in Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany, he studied film at the City College of New York and the French National Film School (IDHEC, now La Fémis). He began his career working as an assistant editor, editor and assistant director, including with Marcel Ophuls and Laurent Cantet. Moll's feature films include *Harry, He's Here to Help* (2000), for which he won the César Award for Best Director in 2001; *Lemming* (2005); *Only the Animals* (2019); *The Night of the 12th* (2022), which won César Awards for Best Film and Best Director in 2023; and *Case 137* (2025), which he also wrote. *Harry, He's Here to Help*, *Lemming* and *Case 137* were selected for the Palme d'Or competition at the Cannes Film Festival. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, cineuropa.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Case 137* (2025), Fi1m 77, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/case-137.md) ## Complete filmography (13) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Case 137* (2025), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/case-137.md) - *The Night of the 12th* (2022), Writer, Director - *Only the Animals* (2019), Director, Screenplay - *Eden* (2019), series, Director, Writer - *Into the Forest* (2016), Screenplay - *News from Planet Mars* (2016), Writer, Director - *The Monk* (2011), Director, Screenplay - *Black Heaven* (2010), Screenplay - *The Queen of Hearts* (2009), as Jogger - *Lemming* (2005), Screenplay, Director - *With a Friend Like Harry...* (2000), Director, Writer - *Human Resources* (1999), Assistant Director - *Intimacy* (1994), Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Dominik Moll](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-b569623b496b.jpg) Dominik Moll — cinergie.be, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Dominik_Moll.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Dominik Moll lors d'une projection spéciale de "Dossier 137" au Cinéma des cinéastes, le 10 décembre 2025.](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-a6758b2e082c.jpg) Dominik Moll lors d'une projection spéciale de "Dossier 137" au Cinéma des cinéastes, le 10 décembre 2025. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Dominik_Moll_2025.jpg/1280px-Dominik_Moll_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dominik Moll en dédicace à la boutique Potemkine en novembre 2022.](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-c163959ce3c2.jpg) Dominik Moll en dédicace à la boutique Potemkine en novembre 2022. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Dominik_Moll_2022.jpg/1280px-Dominik_Moll_2022.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Vincent Cassel, Joséphine Japy et Dominik Moll à une avant-première du film Le Moine au festival Paris Cinéma 2011.](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-729e6459f281.jpg) Vincent Cassel, Joséphine Japy et Dominik Moll à une avant-première du film Le Moine au festival Paris Cinéma 2011. — Yann Caradec from Paris, France, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Avant_premi%C3%A8re_du_film_Le_Moine_de_Dominik_Moll_-_Cloture_du_festival_Paris_Cin%C3%A9ma_-_lundi_11_juillet_2011_-_MK2_Biblioth%C3%A8que_%285928512368%29.jpg/1280px-Avant_premi%C3%A8re_du_film_Le_Moine_de_Dominik_Moll_-_Cloture_du_festival_Paris_Cin%C3%A9ma_-_lundi_11_juillet_2011_-_MK2_Biblioth%C3%A8que_%285928512368%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dominik Moll](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-c3e63bbf9c67.jpg) Dominik Moll — Image via TMDB - ![Dominik Moll et Gilles Marchand lors d'une rencontre autour de "Dossier 137" à la boutique Potemkine, le 31 mars 2026.](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-458617a3836a.jpg) Dominik Moll et Gilles Marchand lors d'une rencontre autour de "Dossier 137" à la boutique Potemkine, le 31 mars 2026. — ManoSolo13241324, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Dominik_Moll_et_Gilles_Marchand_2026.jpg/1280px-Dominik_Moll_et_Gilles_Marchand_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Dominik Moll et Gilles Marchand présentant "La Nuit du 12" à la boutique Potemkine en novembre 2022.](https://film.one/media/person/6899731/gallery-31203781c15e.jpg) Dominik Moll et Gilles Marchand présentant "La Nuit du 12" à la boutique Potemkine en novembre 2022. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Dominik_Moll_et_Gilles_Marchand_2022_1.jpg/1280px-Dominik_Moll_et_Gilles_Marchand_2022_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won, 2 nominated - César Award for Best Adaptation 2023: César Award for Best Adaptation (won), for *The Night of the 12th* - César Award for Best Director 2023: César Award for Best Director (won), for *The Night of the 12th* - César Award for Best Director 2001: César Award for Best Director (won), for *Harry, He's Here to Help* - European Film Award for Best Film 2000: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Harry, He's Here to Help* - European Film Award for Best Screenwriter 2000: European Film Award for Best Screenwriter (nominated), for *Harry, He's Here to Help* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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