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Stefan Ruzowitzky | |
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 Stefan Ruzowitzky, 13 April 2008 | |
| Born | 25 December 1961 Vienna, Austria |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
| Spouse | Birgit Sturm |
Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.
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Stefan Ruzowitzky | |
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| Stefan Ruzowitzky, 13 April 2008 | |
| Born | 25 December 1961 Vienna, Austria |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1996 – present |
| Spouse | Birgit Sturm |
Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.
Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna. He studied drama and history at the University of Vienna and started directing music videos, for example for 'N Sync, and commercials.[ citation needed ]
In 1996, Ruzowitzky presented his first feature film, Tempo, about a group of youths living in Vienna. He was subsequently awarded with the Max Ophüls Preis.
His next feature film, The Inheritors , set in the rural Mühlviertel in Upper Austria, was released in 1998, and was awarded Best Picture at the International Film Festival Rotterdam as well as at the Flanders Film Festival. It also won a prize at the International Film Festival in Valladolid.
In 2000 he directed the successful German horror film Anatomy , starring Franka Potente, and in 2003 the equally well-received sequel Anatomy 2 . Ruzowitzky's first international co-production, All the Queen's Men (2001), starring Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Izzard, was received poorly by both critics and viewers.
In 2007 Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Bear. [1] The film is based on the memories of Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. [2] The Counterfeiters, nominated on behalf of Austrian cinema, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards on 24 February 2008. [3]
In 2013, he directed the 90-minute non-fiction drama Das radikal Böse, which, by means of authentic letters and interviewing psychology, military, and history experts seeks to explain the mentality of "ordinary" members of Einsatzgruppen and Wehrmacht soldiers that carried out the Holocaust. It was mainly based upon Christopher Browning's 1992 book Ordinary Men, which assigns the efficiency of the German killing machinery to social mechanisms of conformism and peer pressure rather than racial hatred.
His vampire horror film The Last Voyage of the Demeter is based on Bram Stoker's Dracula tale, [4] and the psychological thriller Braincopy. [5] [6]
On 2 May 2014, Deadline Hollywood announced that Ruzowitzky would direct Screen Gems' action-thriller Patient Zero based on an original script by Mike Le. The film stars Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer.
| Year | Title | Director | Writer |
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| 1996 | Tempo | Yes | Yes |
| 1998 | The Inheritors | Yes | Yes |
| 2000 | Anatomy | Yes | Yes |
| 2001 | All the Queen's Men | Yes | No |
| 2003 | Anatomy 2 | Yes | Yes |
| 2007 | The Counterfeiters | Yes | Yes |
| 2009 | Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book | Yes | Yes |
| 2012 | Deadfall | Yes | No |
| 2013 | Radical Evil [7] [8] | Yes | No |
| 2017 | Cold Hell | Yes | No |
| 2018 | Patient Zero | Yes | No |
| 2019 | 8 Tage | Yes | No |
| 2020 | Narcissus and Goldmund | Yes | No |
| 2021 | Hinterland | Yes | No |
In 2010, Ruzowitzky directed his first opera production, Der Freischütz , for Vienna's Theater an der Wien. The cast included his Counterfeiters star Karl Markovics in the non-singing role of Samiel; the production was conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
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The Counterfeiters is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by Nazi Germany during World War II to destabilize the United Kingdom by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England pound notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
Adolf Burger was a Slovak Jewish typographer, memoir writer, and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. The film The Counterfeiters, based largely on his memoirs, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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The Georges Delerue Award for Best Music, or Georges Delerue Prize / Prix Georges Delerue, is an award for the best film score. It is named after the French composer Georges Delerue, and was first awarded at the 1985 Film Fest Gent festival. Past winners include: Benny Andersson, Ry Cooder, Bruno Coulais, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Kamen, Astor Piazzolla, Rachel Portman, Howard Shore, Toru Takemitsu, and Vangelis.
Cold Hell is a 2017 German–Austrian thriller film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter is a 2023 American supernatural horror film directed by André Øvredal and written by Bragi F. Schut Jr. and Zak Olkewicz. It is an adaptation of "The Captain's Log", a chapter from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The film stars Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, and David Dastmalchian. Its plot follows the doomed crew of the merchant ship Demeter who attempt to survive the treacherous ocean voyage from Transylvania to London while being stalked by a legendary vampire known as Dracula.
Hinterland is a 2021 Austrian-Luxembourgish crime thriller film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and starring Murathan Muslu and Liv Lisa Fries.
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