Edward Berger (born June 25, 1970) is a West German-born Austrian and Swiss director and screenwriter. He is known for the German films Jack (2014), All My Loving (2019), and All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), which won numerous international awards, including the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, as well as for the English TV series Patrick Melrose(2018) and film Conclave (2024). Edward Berger was born in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, then West Germany, where he graduated from the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium. He holds Swiss citizenship as his mother