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Stefan Ruzowitzky | |
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 Stefan Ruzowitzky, 13 April 2008 | |
| Born | 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 | 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.
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.
Johannes Grenzfurthner is an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer. Grenzfurthner is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group and film production company. Most of his artworks are labeled monochrom.
Vampire films have been a staple in world cinema since the era of silent films, so much so that the depiction of vampires in popular culture is strongly based upon their depiction in films throughout the years. The most popular cinematic adaptation of vampire fiction has been from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, with over 170 versions to date. Running a distant second are adaptations of the 1872 novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. By 2005, the Dracula character had been the subject of more films than any other fictional character except Sherlock Holmes.
Inheritor or Inheritors may refer to:
Drakula halála is an Austrian silent film that was co-written and directed by Károly Lajthay. The film was the first appearance of Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897), though the film does not follow the plot of the novel.
Cinema of Austria refers to the film industry based in Austria. Austria has had an active cinema industry since the early 20th century when it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and that has continued to the present day. Producer Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky, producer-director-writer Luise Kolm and the Austro-Hungarian directors Michael Curtiz and Alexander Korda were among the pioneers of early Austrian cinema. Several Austrian directors pursued careers in Weimar Germany and later in the United States, among them Fritz Lang, G. W. Pabst, Josef von Sternberg, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, and Otto Preminger.
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.
Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director. He was born in Vienna, Austria.
Salomon Smolianoff was a Jewish counterfeiter and Holocaust survivor involved in Operation Bernhard. In the 2007 film The Counterfeiters based on Adolf Burger's memoirs, the character is renamed Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch. The character is played by Karl Markovics, an Austrian stage and television actor.
Curt Faudon was an Austrian film director who wrote, produced and directed over 30 films. He received First Prizes and Jury Awards at Film Festivals in Cannes, Berlin, Monte Carlo, Chicago, New York, and Sydney.
August Zirner is an American-Austrian actor, who starred in over 60 film productions. He is one of the most popular actors in Germany.
The Inheritors is a 1998 Austrian-German film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It stars Simon Schwarz and Sophie Rois and has won numerous awards. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Pavel Cuzuioc is an Austrian, Moldovan, Romanian filmmaker.
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 led by Captain Elliot (Cunningham) 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.
Georg Stefan Troller is an interviewer, director and screenwriter living in Paris. In 1938, Troller fled Austria from the Nazis, first to Czechoslovakia and from there on to France, where he was interned as an enemy alien. In 1941, he obtained a visa for the USA in Marseille. His parents were able to escape via Portugal. In the USA, he was drafted into military service in 1943 and participated in the liberation and documentation of the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, as well as the capture of Munich on May 1. He was stationed in Europe until 1946 and worked for the Rot-Weiß-Rot radio station operated by the US forces. Back in the USA, Troller studied English at the University of California and theater at Columbia University. In 1949, a Fulbright scholarship for the Sorbonne brought Troller to Paris, where he became a correspondent for RIAS. Troller rose to fame with his program Pariser Journal, which aired from 1962 to 1971 on ARD. In 1971, he launched his series of unconventional interviews Personenbeschreibung for ZDF. His screenplays, directed by Axel Corti, have all become cult films.
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