Bjorn Reinhardt

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Björn Reinhardt (born December 5, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German documentary film director.

Life

Reinhardt graduated from high school in Berlin in 1982. He worked for two years as a production assistant for television in the GDR. From 1985 to 1990 he studied stage and costume design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

From 1990 onwards he worked as a set designer at various theaters and opera houses for about ten years. In 1995 Reinhardt shot his first documentary film ("Behind Seven Castles") in Transylvania / Romania with which he was nominated for the Adolf Grimme Prize. From 2000 to 2002 he was production manager at Zeitzeugen TV. In 2002 he moved to Romania, where he has lived in the Maramures ever since and built up the Maramures film archive. So far over 40 documentaries have been made here. Reinhardt has also been working as a photographer since 2008.

Since 2009 he has been making documentaries about Crete (“Kalami”), Northern Greece (“The Last Pelican”), Albania (“Polyphonia. Albania's Forgotten Voices”) and Georgia (“In the Shadow of the Towers”).

Filmography

  • 1995: Behind Seven Castles
  • 2001: Assumption of Mary
  • 2002: TalWein
  • 2003: Gagarin
  • 2003: Laughed, buried and forgotten
  • 2003: 400 guests wedding
  • 2004: Maramuzica
  • 2004: the vision
  • 2004: Trilogy of Drinking
  • 2004: At the gates
  • 2004: Glück auf!
  • 2005: The victory of life
  • 2005: Farmers, Beans and Prince Bogdan
  • 2006: Somehow and Somewhere
  • 2006: Sheep's brother
  • 2007: Obcina
  • 2007: more or less
  • 2007: The brilliant amateur
  • 2007: The collectors
  • 2008: The happy sisters
  • 2008: The last railway paradise
  • 2008: Mama Buna
  • 2008: Valley of Tears
  • 2009: Kalami
  • 2009: Kinderberg
  • 2010: the last pelican
  • 2010: The third violin
  • 2010: Europeans
  • 2010: Poetry of Faith
  • 2011: Bewitched
  • 2011: Polyphonia
  • 2012: In the shadow of the towers
  • 2013: time without a goal
  • 2013: It couldn't be better
  • 2014: Snack
  • 2015: Viflaim. These kids are all right

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