Václav Reischl
Václav Reischl (* 1947 in Vetrny) is a Czech photographer, documentary filmmaker, director and screenwriter.
Reischl graduated from FAMU in Prague in 1972 with a degree in photography . In 1973 he moved from Czechoslovakia to the Federal Republic. Together with his former fellow student Juraj Lipták, he founded the photo studio R&L and the company Bild & Filmproduktion in 1978. In 1983 he received a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Cultural Foundation. While he focused on commercial work in photography, his documentaries are independent productions with which he takes up speculative or suppressed topics and processes them into expressive films. He lives and works in Stuttgart .
Films (selection)
- The Beetle (1981)
- Half the Truth (1984),
- The Old Man and the Sea (1986)
- Money and Saudade (1988)
- Kolín volá Káhiru - Cologne calls Cairo (1993)
- Moshe Neufeld (2003), commissioned work for the memorial initiative KZ Leonberg
- Survivors of the Leonberg concentration camp (2003), commissioned for the Leonberg concentration camp memorial initiative
- Grandfather, what is Leonberg? (2005)
- Není Hietler jako Hitler - Not every Hietler is a Hitler (2006), about the former residents of Pohoří na Šumavě
- Oba bleiba, documentary about the Stuttgart citizen protests against Stuttgart 21
Web links
- Vacláv Reischl Production in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Václav Reischl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography
- Radio Praha for the television premiere of "Není Hietler jako Hitler"
- http://www.vaclavreischl.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reischl, Václav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech photographer, documentary filmmaker, director and screenwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vetrny |