Maria Giese

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Nationality USA

Maria Giese is an American film director and screenwriter. She has a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College and a Masters of Fine Arts in film directing from the University of California, Los Angeles's Graduate School of Film & Technology. While at UCLA, she produced the student film A Dry Heat, for which she won a CINE Golden Eagle Award. She wrote and directed the 1996 British film When Saturday Comes, based on the early life of her then-husband, British film producer James Daly. Daly, who produced When Saturday Comes, separated from Giese a year after the film's release. She also wrote, directed, and co-produced Hunger, based on Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun's 1890 existentialist novel of the same title.

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Joseph Culp
(1 films)

Christophe Lambert
(2 films)

James Daly
(1 films)

Kathleen Luong
(1 films)

Casper Andreas
(1 films)

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Filmography of Maria Giese (3 films)

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Hunger (2001)

Directed by Maria Giese
Genres Drama
Actors Joseph Culp, Robert Culp, Kathleen Luong, Redmond Gleeson, Bruce Solomon, Casper Andreas
Rating74%

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When Saturday Comes (1996)

, 1h38
Directed by Maria Giese
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite, Craig Kelly, Jimmy McKenna, Melanie Hill
Rating59%

A factory worker who gets scouted, firstly by the well-known non-league side Hallam F.C. and then later by Sheffield United Football Club. It was filmed at various locations around South Yorkshire including Rotherham, Sandygate Road and Bramall Lane.