Frank Kalden

Freimut F. Kalden (* in the 20th century ) is a German film producer , documentary filmmaker , cameraman and film editor .

Life

Before 1945 Kalden was assistant director to Kurt Engel for the Boehner-Film production company in Dresden. In the early 1950s he worked as an editor on the film editing of the comedy Der Theodor im Fußballtor by EW Emo as well as the feature film Eva und der Frauenarzt and the documentary Bürger in Uniform by Erich Kobler .

In the mid-1950s, Kalden founded the production company Jura-Film in Munich, where various cultural films were made, e. B. Zement (1955), Lebendiges Licht (1955), The Glockenschmiede am Hasslberg (1955), Children found a home (1955) (via an SOS Children's Village ), The art of violin making (1956) (via Mittenwald , the so-called " Village of a Thousand Violins ”), a 105-minute stop (1956) (via Zurich Airport ), sewage (1957/1958), mother-of-pearl (1958) and everyday waste (1963).

From 1959 to 1966 he worked with Eugen Schuhmacher and Helmuth Barth on the nature film The Last Paradises . In 1964 the Süddeutsche Rundfunk showed its television series British Impressions . In 1966 he produced the film Alaska - Wilderness on the Edge of the World . In 1973 he worked as a cameraman in Schuhmacher's documentary European Paradises . In 1975 he produced the educational film Das Hausschwein as a commission for the FWU , directed by Heinz Gundlach . In 1979 Kalden traveled by car through Brazil for six months, where he captured nature and culture in his 1980 documentary Trans Brasilia - Fantastic Journey with the camera.

Both Kalden's wife Helga and his daughter Eva were involved as editors in the editing of his films.

Web links

• Freimut Kalden at filmportal.de
• Freimut Kalden in the Internet Movie Database (English)