Kurt Hoffmann
{{Short description|German film director (1910–2001)}}
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| name = Kurt Hoffmann
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|11|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Freiburg im Breisgau, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2001|6|25|1910|11|12|df=yes}}
| death_place = Munich, Germany
| occupation = Film director
| yearsactive = 1938–1971
}}
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer.
His 1958 film Wir Wunderkinder was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1959 |title=1st Moscow International Film Festival (1959) |access-date=29 October 2012 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210640/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1959 |archive-date=16 January 2013}} and his 1960 film The Haunted Castle was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.{{cite web|url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1961 |title=2nd Moscow International Film Festival (1961) |access-date=11 November 2012 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210653/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1961 |archive-date=16 January 2013 }} His 1961 film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film563608.html |title=The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi |work=Film Affinity |access-date=3 July 2021}}
Selected filmography
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- Bachelor's Paradise (1939)
- Hurrah! I'm a Father (1939)
- Quax the Crash Pilot (1941)
- I Entrust My Wife to You (1943)
- I'll Carry You in My Arms (1943)
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
- The Lost Face (1948)
- Five Suspects (1950)
- Taxi-Kitty (1950)
- The Rabanser Case (1950)
- Fanfares of Love (1951)
- Queen of the Night (1951)
- Weekend in Paradise (1952)
- Klettermaxe (1952)
- Music by Night (1953)
- Heartbroken on the Moselle (1953)
- Hocuspocus (1953)
- The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1954)
- The Flying Classroom (1954)
- Fireworks (1954)
- Three Men in the Snow (1955)
- I Often Think of Piroschka (1955)
- My Husband's Getting Married Today (1956)
- Confessions of Felix Krull (1957)
- Salzburg Stories (1957)
- The Spessart Inn (1958)
- Wir Wunderkinder (1958)
- The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1959)
- The Beautiful Adventure (1959)
- The Haunted Castle (1960)
- Stage Fright (1960)
- The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (1961)
- Snow White and the Seven Jugglers (1962)
- Love Has to Be Learned (1963)
- Gripsholm Castle (1963)
- The House in Karp Lane (1965)
- Praetorius (1965)
- Hocuspocus (1966)
- Liselotte of the Palatinate (1966)
- Rheinsberg (1967)
- Morning's at Seven (1968)
- The Captain (1971)
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References
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External links
- {{IMDB name|0389219|Kurt Hoffmann}}
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Category:Film people from Freiburg im Breisgau
Category:People from the Grand Duchy of Baden
Category:Film directors from Baden-Württemberg