Haro Senft (27 September 1928, Budweis,

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(now

České Budějovice České Budějovice (; german: Budweis ) is a city in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 93,000 inhabitants. It is located in the valley of the Vltava River, at its confluence with the Malše. České Budějovice is t ...

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, or simply Czechia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Historically known as Bohemia, it is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the southeast. The ...

– 4 February 2016,

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) was a German filmmaker who was one of the founders of the

New German Cinema New German Cinema (german: Neuer Deutscher Film) is a period in German cinema which lasted from 1962 to 1982, in which a new generation of directors emerged who, working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave and Italian Neore ...

movement. His short documentary film '' Kahl'' about the Kahl Nuclear Power Plant received an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject nomination in 1961. In 2013, he received the Berlinale Camera award at the

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Selected filmography

* '' Kahl'' (1961, short documentary) * '' The Smooth Career'' (1967) * ' (1971) * ' (1978) * ''Jacob hinter der blauen Tür'' (1987) * ''Lebewohl, Fremde'' (1991)

References

External links

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Filmmaker's website
(in German) 1928 births 2016 deaths Cinema pioneers Film people from České Budějovice German documentary film directors German film directors {{Germany-film-director-stub