Michael Bittins

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Michael Bittins (* 1941 presumably in Berlin , German Reich ) is a German film producer and production manager.

Live and act

The son of the film producer and production manager Alfred Bittins came to film through his father's mediation in 1960 and began working there as a production assistant for the six-part Durbridge television thriller Es ist geht , a veritable street sweeper. Following this, he worked for several years as a manager , then in 1962 in the movie comedy Thick air . At the side of his father, Michael made his debut in 1961 at Am Sonntag mein Süßer go sailing with me as a production manager, but it was not until the mid-1960s, beginning with the first German science fiction series Raumpatrouille , that he was able to regularly work as a production or production manager. Production manager work.

In the years that followed, Bittins mainly oversaw television productions, including the 1970 ambitious and controversial film adaptation of Mathias Kneißl by Reinhard Hauff , but also the German-British cinema production Deep End from the same year. In the 1980s Michael Bittins was also involved in the production of Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen , with whom he had already worked a few years earlier on the crime comedy Four Against the Bank and the chess thriller Black and White Like Days and Nights . But Bittins also produced the first three feature films by the former time critic Hans-Christoph Blumenberg . Bittins has not been active since the late 1990s.

Filmography

as a production manager, line producer or film producer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 1, p. 402. Berlin 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Bittins, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film production manager and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire