Robert Stratil

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Robert Stratil (born March 30, 1919 in Mährisch-Ostrau , Czechoslovakia , † August 8, 1976 in Munich ) was a German film architect .

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Stratil had started to study architecture in Brno , in what was then the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Second World War . In 1945 he had to flee Czechoslovakia and settled in Munich. There he began his professional career in the architecture office Otto Jaindl of Bavaria-Filmproduktion , where he received his cinematic skills from the film architect Hans Berthel .

At Berthel's side, Stratil worked as an equal partner from 1955 until the early 1960s on leading entertainment productions such as Helmut Käutner's Sky Without Stars , Axel von Ambesser's Der Pauker and Helmut Ashley's Das Schwarze Schaf . In the early 1960s, Stratil was also involved in some US productions made in Germany, including Eins, Zwei, drei .

In the course of the 1960s Robert Stratil, who had worked several times on productions with Heinz Rühmann and was assigned to colleague Wolf Englert on various films in 1965/66 , shifted his field of activity more and more towards television. There the production designer last worked on the series The Father and His Son, The Commissioner , Father Brown and Kli-Kla-Klawitter .

Filmography (cinema)

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 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 533.

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personal data
SURNAME Stratil, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian-Ostrava , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1976
Place of death Munich , Federal Republic of Germany