Rudolf Blaháček

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Rudolf Blaháček (born September 18, 1942 in Brno ) is a Czech cameraman active in Germany .

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Blahacek attended the film academy film and television faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague in the early 1960s , where he trained as a cameraman. From 1961 to 1964 he worked as a camera assistant. After working as a cameraman - he received an award in Oberhausen in 1967 for his FAMU work "Kuks" - Blahacek , who has been based in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1971 , advanced to become chief cameraman in the ČSSR . Since then he has photographed TV and cinema productions. He worked under the directors Peter Beauvais , George Moorse , Franz Seitz , Gustav Ehmck , Frank Ripploh , Niki Müllerschön , Juraj Herz , Götz Friedrich , Herbert Vesely , Matti Geschonneck and Kai Wessel . In addition, he photographed several documentary films by Hans A. Guttner in the 1970s and 1980s .

In the 1990s he worked in his Czech homeland on a series of fairy tale film adaptations by Václav Vorlíček , but also remained connected to high-quality German television productions (multi-part series ' Klemperer - a life in Germany '). Rudolf Blahacek received several prizes for his work, including the German Camera Prize in 1985 and the Paris Grand Prix three years later.

His son (of the same name) Rudolf Blahacek (* 1965) has been active in both cinema and television , especially in Canada , since the mid-1990s ; both films are regularly and incorrectly mixed up.

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SURNAME Blaháček, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno