Manfred Durniok
Manfred Durniok ( born 2 May 1934 in Berlin, † March 7, 2003 ) was a German film producer and director.
Life
Manfred Durniok shot his first documentary short films in the second half of the 1950s. In 1970 he won the German Film Award in Gold for the film Malatesta.
Sad fame Get Manfred Durniok as a jury member at the Berlinale in 1970. As a jury member, he apologized to the jury chairman George Stevens for the screening of the film Ok by Michael Verhoeven. Der Spiegel wrote: " About this gesture came in the jury an intense debate, and the majority decided, Ok To "neutralize". Although the film had been invited by the Selection Committee unanimously for the competition, the jury wanted to once again examine whether it really would help to " understanding and friendship among the nations" ( Berlinale Regulations). Pending resolution of this issue should be of O.K. no longer speak. With this intent, the jury had indeed itself violate the Festival Statute: She was hired solely for artistic judgment, but got now "on the path of censorship ". Then bursts the festival.
Since the 1970s Durniok worked mainly for television. His company Manfred Durniok film production produced including several episodes of the TV series Police 110, several Jules Verne films and the internationally successful films Mephisto (1981 ) and Colonel Redl by István Szabó, personally recorded for Durniok as a producer. For Colonel Redl he was awarded the British Academy Film Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
Manfred Durniok was Mitregisseur of the book by Viktor Suvorov Russian dissident turned film Akwarium.
On Durniok initiative and the establishment of the Chinese Garden of the Reclaimed Moon in Berlin's Marzahn goes back. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Beijing.