Biography:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck (born May 2, 1973) is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others and the 2010 film The Tourist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia