Eric Bergkraut

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Eric Bergkraut (born November 28, 1957 in St. Maur near Paris ) is a Swiss-French actor , director, author and film producer.

Life

Born in 1957 in St. Maur near Paris, Eric Bergkraut moved to Switzerland in 1961. From 1977 to 1980 he trained as an actor at the Zurich Acting Academy and can now look back on numerous theater, film and television engagements. From 1988 he wrote reports for the weekend supplement of the NZZ and from 1991 he worked as a freelancer for Swiss television. In 1992 Bergkraut began making documentaries which were shown all over the world. In 2007 he founded ps 72 productions GmbH with his partner and also works as a film producer. He was awarded the Vaclav Havel Prize for his film "Letter to Anna" about the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja. In 2019 he made his comeback as an actor in the film WIR ELTERN, which he also directed and produced. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and started a successful cinema career. Since October 2008 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Georges and Jenny Bloch Foundation .

Eric Bergkraut lives in Zurich and Paris. He is the father of three sons.

Create

play

Bergkraut has appeared in the films The Inventor , Hammer , Wanderjahre , Le saint , The night of the fox and WIR ELTERN, among others.

Documentaries

  • Oggi siamo tutti un po 'bene (1991), Göschenen - Three Minute Stay (La vie de Sandro Beretta, 1992), A Journey to Death (1996), The Good Life is Just a Trap (1997), The 6th grade - 18 students from 13 nations (1999).
  • Pinkas Braun, Faces of a Gamer (2002) and Sprenge Your Limits (2002).
  • The Flying Abbot (2003): About Daniel Schönbächler OSB , Abbot of the Disentis Monastery from 2000 to 2012.
  • The Witcher from Entlebuch : (2006) Documentary about the Gault-Millau awarded gastrosophie and cook Stefan Wiesner .
  • With Kontinent K. (1998) and Agota, nine years later (2006), two documentaries were made with the writer Agota Kristof .
  • Coca - Die Taube aus Tschetschenien (2005) and One article too many (Letter to Anna. The Story of Journalist Politkovskaja's Death. Producer: Jaka Bizilj , Narration: Martin Witz , 2008): Documentaries about the consequences of the war in Chechnya and about life and the death of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya .
  • 2010: Room 202. Peter Bichsel in Paris
  • Citizen Khodorkovsky (2015)
  • The last witnesses. Life after the Shoah.

Feature films

- WE PARENTS, 2019

novel

- I don't want paradise, novel by a family, Limmat Verlag 2019

Prices

Coca - The pigeon from Chechnya

The witcher from Entlebuch

Letter to Anna

  • 2008 Vaclav Havel Award, One World Festival, Prague
  • 2008 Merit Award, Taiwan International Documentary Festival
  • 2009 Prix du Jury and Prix du Public, Compiègne Film Festival
  • 2009 Special Mention TV 3 Award, Barcelona

Filmography

  • 1991: Oggi siamo tutti un po 'bene
  • 1992: Göschenen - three minutes' stay
  • 1996: A Journey to Death
  • 1997: The good life is just a trap
  • 1998: Continent K.
  • 1999: 6th grade - 18 students from 13 nations
  • 2002: Pinkas Braun, Faces of a Gamer
  • 2002: push your limits
  • 2003: The flying abbot
  • 2005: Coca - The Dove from Chechnya
  • 2006: Agota, nine years later
  • 2006: The witcher from Entlebuch
  • 2008: Letter to Anna
  • 2010: Room 202. Peter Bichsel in Paris
  • 2013: Service epitome

DVDs

  • The witcher from Entlebuch - cooking with snow, hay and ants CMS GmbH / Bretzfeld, 2007 (53 min.)
  • Continent K.
  • Coca, the Dove from Chechnya
  • Letter to Anna
  • Room 202

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Coca - the pigeon from Chechnya. Retrieved December 13, 2010 .
  2. ↑ Eric Bergkraut. Biography. (No longer available online.) Nestroyhof Theater - Hamakom, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 13, 2010 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hamakom.at  
  3. ↑ a b film data sheet. Coca - The Dove From Chechnya. Berlinale, 2005, accessed on December 14, 2010 . in the archive of the Berlinale.
  4. ↑ ps 72 productions GmbH. moneyhouse - Commercial Register, accessed December 13, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Georges and Jenny Bloch Foundation. moneyhouse - Commercial Register, accessed December 13, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Works info at europeanliteraryimmigration.com (English)
  7. ↑ Archive broadcast from February 18, 2008. DOK SF 1, accessed December 14, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Eric Bergkraut's documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky. NZZ, accessed on July 13, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bergkraut, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris