Hans Domnick
Hans Josef Ferdinand Wolfgang Domnick ( born May 31, 1909 in Greifswald; † 6 February 1985 in San Diego, California ) was a German film producer and documentary filmmaker.
Life
Hans Domnick was from 1946 studio manager at the newly founded film build GmbH Göttingen. In 1949 he became an independent producer. Great successes came in the 1950s with the Curt Goetz adaptations The House in Montevideo, gynecologist Dr. Praetorius and hocus-pocus. These works he filmed all over again in the 1960s, this time in color, Cinemascope and with Heinz Rühmann in the lead roles.
In 1958 he traveled in the company of his wife and with various selected cars and Cinemascope cameras equipped the Panamericana from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego down. The result was the two-part documentary dream street in the world in 1958 was awarded the Silver Bear. In 1968, he brought this milestone of the documentary in a newly edited version out together again.
His brother, the experimental filmmaker Ottomar Domnick ( Jonas 1957), also had a production company.