Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940) is a

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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 ...

. His 1971

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feature ''

Daughters of Darkness ''Daughters of Darkness'' is a 1971 erotic horror film directed by Harry Kümel and starring Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, John Karlen and Andrea Rau. Plot Stefan Chilton, the son of an aristocratic British family who was raised in the Uni ...

'' (''Les lèvres rouges''; Fr, "The Red Lips"), starring

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became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He also directed the film version of ''

Malpertuis ''Malpertuis'' (1943) is a gothic horror novel by the Belgian author Jean Ray (1887–1964). Premise Malpertuis is a crumbling, ancient house where a dying warlock has trapped the aging gods of Olympus inside the "skins" of ordinary Flemish ...

'' (1971), featuring

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and adapted from the 1943 novel by Jean Ray. He also directed ''

Monsieur Hawarden ''Monsieur Hawarden'' is a 1968 Belgian-Dutch drama film directed by Harry Kümel. The film was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 42nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film is an adaptat ...

'' (1969) about the cross-dressing Meriora Gillibrand whose two male lovers fought a duel in Vienna. She then killed the survivor and fled to Belgium dressed as a man. She took the name Hawarden from a family related to hers in Lancashire. The film is a fictionalised account; he
grave
can still be seen near

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in the German-speaking part of Belgium. He made a cameo appearance in several fiction novels, among others:

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's novel ''Antwerp''.

Hubert Lampo Hubert Leon Lampo ( Antwerp, 1 September 1920 – Essen, 12 July 2006) was a Flemish writer, one of the founders of magic realism in Flanders. His most famous book is '' De komst van Joachim Stiller'' ("The coming of Joachim Stiller", 1960), in ...

's magic-realistic novel ''The Scent of Sandalwood''. From 1969 until the present, teacher of cinema at various film institutes, among many: The Dutch Film and Television Academy - Amsterdam (NFTA), Institut des Arts de Diffusion - Brussels (IAD), Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound - Brussels (RITS), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)...

Filmography

*''Erasmus'' (1962) *''Hendrik Conscience'' (1963) *''Waterloo'' (1964) *''De Grafbewaker'' (1965) *''

'' (1969) *''

'' (1971) *''

'' (1973) *'' De Komst van Joachim Stiller'' (1976) *' (1978) *''The Secrets of Love'' (1985) *''

Eline Vere ''Eline Vere'' is an 1889 novel by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus. It was adapted into the 1991 film '' Eline Vere'', directed by Harry Kümel. Couperus wrote ''Eline Vere'' in the house at Surinamestraat 20, The Hague. Reception The naturalis ...

'' (1991)

References

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* 1940 births Living people Belgian film directors Mass media people from Antwerp 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-film-director-stub