Carl Schenkel

Carl Schenkel (born May 8, 1948 in Bern , † December 1, 2003 in Los Angeles , California ) was a Swiss film director and screenwriter .

He died of heart failure in Los Angeles, his adopted home.

Known movies

He had his first big success in 1984 with Abwärts , with Götz George , Wolfgang Kieling and Renée Soutendijk in the lead roles, the young Hannes Jaenicke became known through the film. With the film adaptation of Two Women in 1989 he achieved a respectable success with critics. With George Peppard and Rip Torn , Hollywood actors were also engaged in supporting roles. His most commercially successful film was Knight Moves - A Murderous Game with Christopher Lambert , Diane Lane and Tom Skerritt . The film had two million viewers in Germany, but it flopped in the United States.

1979: Count Dracula (now biting) in Upper Bavaria
1981: Cold as ice
1984: down
1987: The Witches of Bay Cove (Bay Coven)
1989: Big Bad Man (The Mighty Quinn)
1989: two women
1989: The Edge (co-directed with Nicholas Kazan and Luis Mandoki )
1990: Murderous Shadow (silhouette)
1992: Knight Moves (Knight Moves)
1994: Obsessed with Jealousy (Beyond Betrayal)
1995: Exquisite Tenderness - Hellish Torment; also: The beast in the white coat (Exquisite Tenderness)
1996: In the Lake of the Woods
1997: Cold kisses
1998: Tarzan and the Lost City
2000: Missing Pieces
2001: Hostile Takeover - althan.com
2001: Murder on the Orient Express

personal data
SURNAME	Schenkel, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ombra, Carlos; Ombra, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bern , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	December 1, 2003
Place of death	Los Angeles , California , United States