Robert Dornhelm
Robert Dorn Helm ( born December 17, 1947 in Timişoara, Romania) is an Austrian film director of Romanian descent.
Life and work
Robert Dorn helmet was in Timisoara, western Romania, in the Banat 1947 - until the end of World War I part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - born. He emigrated in 1961 with his family to Austria. From 1965 to 1967 he spent two years studying film at the Vienna Film Academy. Then spike helmet worked 1967-1975 as a documentary director for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF ).
After several projects thorn helmet is then in 1977 his debut film finished: The Children of Theatre Street. This earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary in 1978 a. The documentary deals with the students of the Vaganova Ballet Academy in St. Petersburg and is narrated by Princess Grace of Monaco.
After this success, Dorn moved his helmet working and living center in Los Angeles. This was followed by films such as She Dances Alone ( 1981) - a story about Kyra Nijinsky, the daughter of the great Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky - or Digital Dreams. In 1983 for the American television turned film dedicated to the life of Bill Wyman, longtime bassist and founding member of the Rolling Stones.
With his next feature film Echo Park (1986 ) Dorn helmet could celebrate success in both the U.S. and Europe. In 1990 in a drama Requiem for Dominic - nominated for a Golden Globe, written by the two Austrian authors Michael and Felix Mitterer Köhlmeier - Dorn helmet engaged in the revolutionary upheaval in his native Romania. In the late 1990s, followed by two films The Unfisch (1997) and The Venice Project (1999).
2001 leads spike helmet Director at the Anne Frank film Anne Frank - The true story starring Ben Kingsley and Brenda Blethyn that was produced for the U.S. television channel ABC and earned him a nomination for an Emmy in the category of Best Director a Miniseries.
2002 filmed spike helmet with RFK the life of Robert F. Kennedy. This is followed by a film about the controversial New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani: Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story ( 2003) ( with James Woods ), Spartacus (2004) and The Ten Commandments ( 2006).
It follows Into the West, a production of Steven Spielberg, who was honored with ten nominations for the Emmy.
His subsequent film was Crown Prince Rudolf (2006 ), a TV miniseries about the fate of the Habsburg heir Rudolf of Austria - Hungary. The approximately two-month rotation took place in and around Vienna. The period drama was first broadcast in 2006 by the ORF and sold to 15 television stations. In 2007, Dorn helmet for the Golden Romy for Best Director of the Year.
2007 turned thorn helmet in Russia and Lithuania, its been consuming film: a multi-part remake of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace, see War and Peace (2007).
Spike helmet made a documentary about Herbert von Karajan occasion of 100th birthday with its previously authorized sample material and interviews from the archives: Karajan - or the beauty as I see it. La Bohème with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón in 2008 came to the cinema.
In 2012 he turned the TV miniseries K2 - The Italian Mountain about the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world with Marco Bocci and Michele Alheique in the lead roles. The first broadcast on Italian state television RAI sparked heated debates in the press from disappointed descendants of the first climbers and alpine circles, since neither representation of the events nor characters of the participants in accordance with the historical reality. The " documentary" shows a completely distorted and unrealistic view of the expedition events. The product of the collaboration of " Rai Fiction" and " Red film - Terra International Film Producers " was not filmed in the Karakoram, yet was green grass avoided in the summit area. It is legally declared a " Fiction", though in-depth research and integrity are given.
The former State Opera Director Ioan Holender is a cousin Robert Dorn helmet. He took the three- year-olds after his emigration from Romania from Italy. Spike helmet had accepted Austrian citizenship after emigrating from Romania and now lives with his wife in Los Angeles.
In summer 2013 spike helmet Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème staged for the Opera Festival St. Margaret.