Heinz Karl Heiland

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Heinz Karl Heiland , also Karl Heiland , Heinz Carl Heiland and Heinz-Karl Heiland (born July 10, 1876 in Düsseldorf , † October 10, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German film director , film producer , screenwriter , cameraman and actor .

Life

Heiland initially worked as a travel writer , mainly for the Scherl-Verlag , where, for example, he described bison hunt in the car in 1913 and illustrated it with plenty of his own photos. He himself stated as his résumé in 1926:

"High school, technical college (Corps), trainee machinist on East Asian steamer, cowboy in Mexico, bear hunter in Alaska, racing driver, globetrotter, big game hunter, writer, film director - now nothing worse can come."

In 1912 he shot his first two expedition films on the edge of the Caucasus . When war broke out in 1914, he was in India and then returned to Germany.

The films he made in Germany during the war also took place in an exotic atmosphere. Since 1919 he has mostly produced himself and regularly made actress Loo Holl the leading actress.

From 1924 to 1926 Heiland traveled through Japan, China and India and filmed The White Geisha and Bushido - The Iron Law in these countries . The audience success was modest compared to the great expense, and his further efforts to produce films in East Asia with the help of Indian and Japanese donors were unsuccessful. He passed out of life voluntarily.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1912: An attack in the Caucasus (camera too)
  • 1913: Woman robbery (also camera)
  • 1915: König Motor (script only)
  • 1916: Arcanum (also production)
  • 1916: Die Dewadâsi (also screenplay)
  • 1916: The Thug. In the service of the goddess of death (also screenplay and actor)
  • 1916: The Secret of the Lake (also screenplay and actor)
  • 1916: The Thug
  • 1917: In the realm of flames
  • 1917: the spy
  • 1918: About the love of the tamer (also screenplay)
  • 1918: Don Juan's last adventure
  • 1918: The Alchemist (also screenplay)
  • 1919: Rebel love (also production and screenplay)
  • 1919: The Temple Robber (also production and screenplay)
  • 1920: The desert grave (also camera and production)
  • 1920: The lonely wreck (also camera and production)
  • 1921: The Treasure of the Aztecs (also production and screenplay)
  • 1922: Hapura, the dead city. Part 1: The fight for the millionaire inheritance (also camera, production, screenplay and actors)
  • 1922: Hapura, the dead city. Part 2: The dispute over the ruins (also production and script)
  • 1922: The Japanese mask. Part 1: The Bandit's Nest on the Adlerstein (also production)
  • 1923: The Japanese mask. 2nd part (also production)
  • 1923: The monkfish (2 parts; also production)
  • 1926: The white geisha
  • 1926: Bushido - The Iron Law (also production and screenplay)
  • 1926: The Borobudur riddle

Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of death according to IMDb and filmportal.de. According to Kay Less: The film's large personal dictionary is the date of death February 10, 1932. Less also specifies “Germany” as the place of death.
  2. ↑ The German tropical forest in the googlebooks search

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personal data
SURNAME Savior, Heinz Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savior, Karl; Savior, Heinz Carl; Heiland, Heinz-Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director, film producer, screenwriter, cameraman and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1932
Place of death Berlin