Alf Brustellin

{{Short description|Austrian film director}}

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{{Infobox person

| image =

| name = Alf Brustellin

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|7|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Vienna, Nazi Germany

| nationality = Austrian

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1981|11|11|1940|7|27|df=yes}}

| death_place = Munich, West Germany

| occupation = Film director
Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1968–1981

}}

Alf Brustellin (27 July 1940 – 11 November 1981) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed six films between 1972 and 1979. He co-directed the 1978 film Germany in Autumn, which won the Special Recognition Award at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1978/03_preistr_ger_1978/03_Preistraeger_1978.html |title=Berlinale 1978: Prize Winners |access-date=7 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de}} Alf Brustellin worked together with Bernhard Sinkel as a director and screenwriter team.

Brustellin was in a relationship with Hannelore Elsner from 1973 until his death. He died in a car accident.

Selected filmography

Director

  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Berlinger (film)|de|3=Berlinger (Film)|lt=Berlinger}} (1975) (co-director: Bernhard Sinkel)
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Maiden's War|de|Der Mädchenkrieg (Film)}} (1977) (co-director: Bernhard Sinkel) — (based on a novel by {{Ill|Manfred Bieler|de}})
  • Germany in Autumn (anthology film, 1978)
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|The Fall (1979 film)|de|3=Der Sturz (Film)|lt=The Fall}} (1979) — (based on a novel by Martin Walser)

Cinematographer

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