Alf Brustellin (27 July 1940 – 11 November 1981) was an Austrian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He directed six films between 1972 and 1979. He co-directed the 1978 film ''

Germany in Autumn ''Germany in Autumn'' (german: Deutschland im Herbst) is a 1978 West German anthology film about the period of 1977 known as the German Autumn, which was dominated by incidents of terrorism. The film is composed of contributions from different fi ...

'', which won the Special Recognition Award at the

28th Berlin International Film Festival The 28th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 February to 5 March 1978. Director Wolf Donner successfully managed to shift the festival's date from June to February, a change which has remained ever since. This was the firs ...

. Alf Brustellin worked together with

Bernhard Sinkel Bernhard Sinkel (born 19 January 1940) is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1975 and 1993. He co-shared the Special Recognition award at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival for the film ''Germany in ...

as a director and screenwriter team. Brustellin was in a relationship with

Hannelore Elsner Hannelore Elsner (; born Hannelore Elstner; 26 July 1942 – 21 April 2019) was a German actress with a long career in television and film. She first performed on stage in Munich, and later starred in popular films and television series such as ' ...

from 1973 until his death. He died in a car accident.

Selected filmography

Director * ' (1975) (co-director:

) * ' (1977) (co-director: Bernhard Sinkel) — (based on a novel by ) * ''

'' (anthology film, 1978) * ' (1979) — (based on a novel by

Martin Walser Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. Life Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the e ...

) Cinematographer * ''

Lina Braake ''Lina Braake'' ( Brechtian subtitle: ''Die Interessen der Bank können nicht die Interessen sein, die Lina Braake hat'') is a 1975 West German drama film directed by Bernhard Sinkel and starring Lina Carstens, Fritz Rasp and Herbert Bötticher.T ...

'' (1975)

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* 1940 births 1981 deaths Austrian film directors Austrian male screenwriters Film people from Vienna 20th-century Austrian screenwriters 20th-century Austrian male writers {{Austria-film-director-stub