Sam Waynberg
Sam Waynberg (born as Samuel Wajnberg on June 20, 1925 in Opatów , Poland ; † December 3, 2011 in Gstaad , Switzerland ) was a Polish producer in international film.
Live and act
The Polish Jew Samuel Wajnberg had survived the Nazi terror in Czestochowa when he decided to settle in Germany in 1945. Little is known about his early years; initially he was probably active in film distribution. In 1955 he settled in Berlin and founded Planet-Film GmbH there. Waynberg's first production was the German film He went by my side in 1958 . Since the mid-1960s, Weinberg has been regularly involved in the creation of an international work - sometimes as production manager, sometimes as production manager, starting with the scandalous film by his compatriot Roman Polanski , Ekel . Also in Polanski's following scandal when Katelbach comes ... Weinberg was just as involved as in the crusade drama The Gates of Paradise , a British production by Polanski and Waynberg's compatriot Andrzej Wajda .
Two films followed around 1970, with which Waynberg attempted to ride the sex film wave, as well as a concert film. Waynberg then temporarily left production and founded Scotia Filmverleih in 1972 . Until this company had to file for bankruptcy after thirty years due to a legal dispute with the US production company Miramax , Waynberg brought American box-fillers such as Pulp Fiction , Good Will Hunting , Rambo and Basic Instinct into German cinemas.
Waynberg made famous (and wealthy) above all the internationally successful popsicle series, which he co-produced from 1979 as a junior partner of his Israeli colleagues Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus . Waynberg's own production range of Planet-Film remained incoherent as well as eclectic: he made both crude sex films such as Let Run, Kumpel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's artistically highly controversial farewell work Querelle . After the end of the popsicle series (1988), Sam Waynberg withdrew from the production business and concentrated only on the film distribution business.
Filmography
- 1958: He walked by my side
- 1964: disgust (repulsion)
- 1965: Sherlock Holmes' greatest case (A Study in Terror)
- 1965: Rembrandt 7 does not answer
- 1965: When Katelbach comes ... (Cul-de-Sac)
- 1967: The Gates of Paradise (Gates to Paradise)
- 1967: The Penthouse (The Penthouse)
- 1969: Anatomy of the act of love
- 1970: Psychology of Orgasm
- 1971: Love and Music (documentary)
- 1979: Popsicle 2 - steadfast girlfriend
- 1980: honeymoon
- 1980: Affectionate cousins
- 1981: Let it go, buddy
- 1981: Popsicle 3 - Liebeleien (also co-script)
- 1982: Querelle
- 1983: Two professionals get out (Un dimanche de Flic)
- 1984: Popsicle 5 - The great love
- 1984: the miracle
- 1985: Popsicle 6 - Vacation Love (also co-script)
- 1986: Bibo's men
- 1987: Popsicle 7 - Boys in Love
- 1988: Popsicle VIII - Summertime Blues
literature
- Who's Who in the Arts, two volumes. 2nd revised edition, Wörthsee 1978. Second volume, p. 358
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samuel Wajnberg on ushmm.org
Web links
- Waynberg obituary in Variety of December 12, 2011
- Sam Waynberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sam Waynberg at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waynberg, Sam |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waynberg, Samuel; Wajnberg, Samuel (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish film distributor and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Opatów Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 2011 |
| Place of death | Gstaad , Switzerland |