David Kross

DAVID KROSS

David Kross was born in 1990 in a little town near Hamburg. Already at age 12, he acted in Oliver Dommengets made for television movie HILFE ICH BIN EIN JUNGE, followed by some small roles in other made for television movies. German director, Detlev Buck, discovered Kross for his Berlin movie KNALLHART. After a long search and several castings, Buck chose him for the leading role of Michael Polischka. The movie won several prizes, among them three Lolas, the German film prize and the Fipresci Prize (from international film critics) in the Panorama section of the International Film Festival Berlin in 2006.

This fall he can be seen in German cinemas in the leading role of KRABAT by Marco Kreuzpaintner, a historical adaptation of Otfried Preußlers' "Krabat," a famous and important youth book, which was also an international bestseller. Kross played alongside famous German actors Daniel Brühl and Robert Stadlober.