Jacques Rotmil

Jacques Rotmil , also Jack Rotmil and Jacek Rotmil (born November 24, 1888 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire , † July 26, 1944 in Warsaw , Generalgouvernement ) was a Russian film architect .

Live and act

Rotmil was trained as an engineer and architect in Karlsruhe . He then began his work as an interior designer there . Immediately after the First World War, Rotmil made contact with the German film industry in Berlin . There, during the Weimar Republic, he set up an abundance of low-quality entertainment films. Rotmil preferred to design the sets for Richard Eichberg's and Viktor Janson's comedies , but he also designed the film structures for several productions by Jakob Fleck , Gustav Ucicky and Wilhelm Thiele .

As a result of the seizure of power , the Jew Rotmil fled Germany in the spring. In Warsaw, his first name Polonized to "Jacek", he easily caught up with the film industry there and continued to be extremely productive. Rotmil equipped around a dozen films a year, including a few works shot in Yiddish . After the occupation of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht in autumn 1939, Rotmil went underground. Arrested later, he was executed in Warsaw's Pawiak prison just before the Warsaw Uprising began on July 26, 1944 .

Filmography

• 1919: himself - his God
• 1920: Tortured Hearts
• 1920: The hand of the strangler
• 1921: The living propeller
• 1921: The hunt for women
• 1922: Your Highness the dancer
• 1922: Monna Vanna
• 1923: Miss Raffke
• 1923: The billion dollar souper
• 1924: The motor bride
• 1924: Colibri
• 1924: Niniche
• 1925: passion
• 1925: the adventurer
• 1925: The one from the Lower Rhine
• 1925: The Sunken
• 1926: Schimeck family
• 1926: Chaste Susanne
• 1926: The divorced woman
• 1926: The queen of the world bath
• 1927: love affair
• 1927: love dance
• 1927: The great Lola
• 1927: The Prince of Pappenheim
• 1927: The serfs
• 1927: The Orlov
• 1928: Snowshoe bandits
• 1928: The blue mouse
• 1928: your dark point
• 1928: There is no trace of the perpetrator
• 1928: The dance student
• 1929: Adieu, Mascotte
• 1929: Black Forest girl
• 1929: The convict from Stambul
• 1929: Phantoms of Luck
• 1929: Once you give your heart away
• 1930: The Don Cossack Song
• 1930: The Csikos Baroness
• 1930: Dolly makes a career
• 1930: To Siberia ( Na Sybir )
• 1930: the old song
• 1931: The carnival fairy
• 1931: The daredevil
• 1931: The office manager
• 1931: Lies on Rügen
• 1932: Once upon a time there was a waltz
• 1932: The adventure of Thea Roland
• 1932: The blue of the sky
• 1933: Zabawka (toy)
• 1933: Procurator Alicja Horn (Public Prosecutor Alicja Horn)
• 1934: Młody las (Young Forest)
• 1934: Czarna perła (Black Pearl)
• 1935: Dwie Joasie (Two Johannas)
• 1935: Jaśnie pan szofer (Hocherleuchter Herr Chauffeur)
• 1935: Rapsodia Bałtyku (Baltic Sea Rhapsody)
• 1936: Bolek i Lolek (Bolek and Lolek)
• 1936: Róża (Rose)
• 1936: Tajemnica panny Brinx (secret of Miss Brinx)
• 1937: The Dybbuk ( Dybuk )
• 1937: Piętro wyżej (One floor up)
• 1937: Książątko (Prince)
• 1937: Znachor (quack doctor)
• 1938: A letter to the mother ( A brivele der mamen )
• 1938: Florian
• 1938: Mateczka (mother)
• 1938: Robert i Bertrand
• 1938: Ostatnia brygada (The Last Brigade)
• 1939: Czarne diamenty (black diamonds)
• 1939: Doctor Murek
• 1939: Zapomniana melodia (Forgotten Melody)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 655.
• Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 296.

Web links

• Jacques Rotmil at filmportal.de
• Jacques Rotmil in the Internet Movie Database (English)