Robert Dornhelm

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Robert Dornhelm (born December 17, 1947 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) is an Austrian film director of Romanian descent.

life and work

Robert Dornhelm was born in 1947 in Timișoara in western Romania in the Banat . He emigrated to Austria with his family in 1961. From 1965 to 1967 he studied film at the Vienna Film Academy . From 1967 to 1975 he worked as a documentary film director for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).

After several projects, Dornhelm completed his debut film in 1977: The Children of Theater Street . This earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary in 1978. The film deals with the students of the Vaganova Ballet Academy in Saint Petersburg and is narrated by Princess Gracia Patricia of Monaco .

After this success, Dornhelm relocated his work and life to Los Angeles . Films like She Dances Alone (1981) - a story about Kyra Nijinsky, the daughter of Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky - and Digital Dreams followed . The film, shot in 1983 for American television, is dedicated to the life of Bill Wyman , longtime bassist and founding member of the Rolling Stones .

With his next feature film, Echo Park (1986) , Dornhelm was able to celebrate successes both in the USA and in Europe. In the 1990 drama Requiem for Dominic - nominated for a Golden Globe , written by the two Austrian authors Michael Köhlmeier and Felix Mitterer - Dornhelm deals with the revolutionary upheaval in his native Romania. Towards the end of the 1990s, the two films Der Unfisch (1997) and The Venice Project (1999) followed. In 2001, Dornhelm directed the Anne Frank film adaptation of Anne Frank - The True Story with Ben Kingsley and Brenda Blethyn , which was produced for the American television station ABC and which earned him an Emmy nomination for the category of best director of a miniseries . In 2002 Dornhelm filmed the life of Robert F. Kennedy with RFK . This is followed by a film about the controversial New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani : Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003) (with James Woods), Spartacus (2004) and The Ten Commandments (2006) . This was followed by Into the west , a Steven Spielberg production that received ten Emmy nominations.

His subsequent film was Crown Prince Rudolf's Last Love (2006), a two-part TV series about the fate of Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, heir to the Habsburg throne . The two-month shoot took place in Vienna and the surrounding area. The historical drama was first broadcast by ORF in 2006 and sold on 15 television stations. In 2007, Dornhelm received the Golden Romy for best director of the year. In 2007 Dornhelm made his most elaborate film to date in Russia and Lithuania, a multi-part remake of Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace , see War and Peace (2007) . Then he made a documentary about Herbert von Karajan on the occasion of his 100th birthday with previously unauthorized sample material and conversations from archives: Karajan - or Beauty as I see it . La Bohème with Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón was released in 2008.

In 2012 he shot the two-part TV series K2 - The Italian Mountain , a feature film about the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world with Marco Bocci and Michele Alheique in the leading roles. The first broadcast on the Italian television RAI triggered heated debates in the press due to the disappointed descendants of the first climbers and alpine circles, as neither the presentation of the processes nor the characters of the participants corresponded to historical reality. The film shows a falsified and unrealistic picture of the expedition events. The product of the collaboration between Rai Fiction and Red Film - Terra Internationale Filmproduktionen was not filmed in the Karakoram but in Tyrol, it is a matter of " fiction ", although well-founded research and seriousness are given.

The angel for Dornhelm's Tosca production in the Roman quarry St. Margarethen

In the summer of 2013, Dornhelm staged Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème for the St. Margarethen Opera Festival . The following year he directed Aida and in July and August 2015 Giacomo Puccini's Tosca in the Roman quarry St. Margarethen .

In 2016 he shot the two-part TV series Das Sacher for ORF and ZDF , and the miniseries Maria Theresia for ORF in 2017 and 2019 .

family

The former State Opera Director Ioan Holender is a cousin of Robert Dornhelm. He picked up the thirteen-year-old in Italy after emigrating from Romania. After emigrating from Romania, Dornhelm took on Austrian citizenship.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

See also

Web links

Commons : Robert Dornhelm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quello non è il nostro K2. Parlano Compagnoni, Desio, Rey e gli altri eredi del 1954. In: www.montagna.tv. March 21, 2013, accessed July 10, 2013
  2. ↑ The Austrian Art Prize . Retrieved October 26, 2017.
  3. ↑ Honors for Dornhelm and Resetarits on ORF from June 18, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Dornhelm, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Timișoara , Romania