Jan Fantl

Jan Fantl (born June 11, 1954 in Prague ) is a German film producer .

biography

Jan Fantl was born in 1954 in Czechoslovakia as the son of director Thomas Fantl . After Thomas Fantl was banned from working there, the family moved to Germany in 1957, where Jan Fantl grew up. After his graduation in 1975, he is a manager at Bavaria Film committed freelancer, two years later, he is assistant director . During this time he mainly worked at Hajo Gies' side , whom he assisted in numerous films and crime scene episodes. This time ended with the first Schimanski cinema film Tooth for Tooth in 1984. He was also engaged for films by Wolfgang Petersen ( plan exercise ), Franz Peter Wirth ( Wallenstein ) and Peter Adam ( Tatort ). From 1985 to 1987 he was a director for the television series Sesame Street and in the evening program. At the same time, he worked from 1981 to 1988 as a producer, writer and director in advertising and industrial films.

In 1991 he became a line producer . As part of this activity, he worked for the Icelandic film Tár úr steini , which Iceland submitted as a candidate for the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1996 . The television pilot The Clown fell into his area of ​​responsibility as executive producer.

Jan Fantl has been a producer and entrepreneur since 1997, specializing in bringing Hollywood films to Europe , such as the musical drama Beyond the Sea - Music was his life with Kevin Spacey , Kate Bosworth , John Goodman and Bob Hoskins . Its film action takes place for the most part in America, but was shot in the film studios Babelsberg and Berlin in Germany. Other films he co-produced include The Musketeer and A Sound of Thunder .

He has lived and worked in Prague since 2008 and in London since 2011.

Web links

• Jan Fantl in the Internet Movie Database (English)