Robert Dornhelm
{{short description|Austrian film and television director|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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Robert Dornhelm (born 17 December 1947) is an Austrian film and television director.
Biography
Dornhelm is of Hungarian-Jewish descent born in Timișoara, Banat region, Romania.{{Cite web|last=Davis |first=Sally Ogle |title=Prime Time for Hitler |publisher=Jewish Journal|date=August 1, 2002 |url=http://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/6355/ |quote=Romanian-born, Viennese-reared Jewish director Robert Dornhelm, who directed the acclaimed Anne Frank miniseries last year, says he also turned the project down when it was offered to him}} He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as Echo Park, The Venice Project, The Unfish, and A Further Gesture. In 1998 The Unfish won the Citizen's Choice Award at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.
He directed the 1977 documentary film The Children of Theatre Street, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Dornhelm directed the television miniseries Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award. He also directed the new TV adaptation Spartacus (2004) and the 2011 film The Amanda Knox Story.
Decorations and awards
- 1978: Nominations for Academy Award for Best Documentary for The Children of Theatre Street
- 2007: Romy Award for Best Director for {{Interlanguage link|Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (2006)|de|3=Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (2006)|lt=Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe}} (The Crown Prince)
- 2006: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = de | page=1720 | access-date = 1 February 2013 }}
Selected filmography
- The Children of Theatre Street (1977)
- She Dances Alone (1981)
- Echo Park (1986)
- Cold Feet (1989)
- Requiem for Dominic (1990)
- Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald (1993, TV film)
- The Unfish (1997)
- A Further Gesture (1997)
- The Venice Project (1999)
- Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001, TV miniseries)
- Sins of the Father (2002, TV film)
- RFK (2002, TV film)
- Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (2003, TV film)
- Spartacus (2004, TV film) by novel of Howard Fast
- Suburban Madness (2004, TV film)
- Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story (2004, TV film)
- The Ten Commandments (2006, TV film)
- {{Interlanguage link|Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (2006)|de|3=Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (2006)|lt=Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe}} (The Crown Prince) (2006, TV film)
- War and Peace (2007, TV miniseries) by novel of Leo Tolstoy
- La Bohème (2008)
- Udo Proksch: Out of Control (2010)
- Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011, TV film)
- {{Interlanguage link|Shadows from the Past|de|Die Schatten, die dich holen}} (2011, TV film)
- {{Interlanguage link|K2 - La montagna degli italiani|it}} (2012, TV miniseries)
- Das Sacher (2016, TV film)
- Maria Theresa (2017, miniseries)
- Vienna Blood, (2019–2022, TV series)
References
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External links
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Category:Austrian film directors
Category:Austrian television directors
Category:Austrian people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Category:Danube-Swabian people
Category:People from Timișoara
Category:Recipients of the Romy (TV award)
Category:Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
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