Uwe Janson began his film career with the short "Rastlos" (1987). It was only two years later that he directed the highly acclaimed feature film "Verfolgte Wege" (1989), which won a German Camera Award in 1990 and for which he received a Bavarian Film Award in 1990 for Best Young Direction.

From 1993 to 2000, he directed a series of TV movies, among them "To Run and To Die" (1994), "The Therapist" (1997), "Rhapsody in Blood" (1998), "Whisky Sour" (2000), "Ms. Cupid" (2001), "Vulkan" (2009), "The Sinking of the Laconia" (2011) and the feature film "At Night in the Park" ("Nachts im Park", 2001).

Among the other prizes he has garnered along the way are a Director's Promotional Prize at Munich in 1989 and the Prix de Jeunesse at Locarno in 1989.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH