Thomas Fantl

Thomas Fantl ( born December 9, 1928 in Prague, † July 20, 2001 in Munich) was a film director.

Fantl came from a German - Jewish family. He survived the Holocaust; in the years 1941 to 1945, he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

After the war he worked at FAMU in Prague and was, inter alia, assistant director of Yuri and white. Between 1954 and 1955 he was banned from working in Czechoslovakia and emigrated in 1957 in the Federal Republic of Germany, where he first worked as an editor and dramaturg at the film - Hansa. Since 1963, Fantl was a freelance director, mainly for ZDF. Among other things, he directed the TV series the way to Atlantis.