Kurt Bertrand Paul Hoffmann Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971.His 1958 film Wir Wunderkinder was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival and his 1960 film The Haunted Castle was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His 1961 film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
Kurt Hoffmann got the top of German directors when he shot nine more movies from 1955 with his discovery Liselotte Pulver from the movie "Klettermaxe" (1952) which all achieved an enormous popularity in Germany.
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His 1958 film Wir Wunderkinder was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.
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He was since 1938 married with Betti Grimm -who died in 1989-, sister of director Hans Grimm and photographer 1Arthur Grimm.
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At about the end of World War II he had to enter the military and was taken prisoner. He was only released in 1946.
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His 1961 film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.
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In the 50's he came back to the comedy movies and realised some very huge successes like "Hokuspokus" (1953) and "Drei Männer im Schnee" (1955) by Erich Kästner.
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Especially for director Reinhold Schünzel he was engaged for a total of nine movies as an assistant director.
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His 1960 film The Haunted Castle was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize.
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After his return to Germany he shot his first post-war movie "Das verlorene Gesicht" (1948), an earnest movie with a great Marianne Hoppe in the leading role.
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Besides countless awards, among others several Filmbänder in Gold of the German Filmpreis, he also was one of few German directors who were achieved with the Golden Globe for his movies "Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Kruss" (1957) and "Wir Wunderkinder " (1958).
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Was married form 1994 till his death with Luise Schneider.
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Apart from three short movies where he was in evidence as a director - "Wochenendfrieden" (1938), "Der Skarabäus" (1938) and "Andere Länder, andere Sitten" (1938) - he carried on the job of an assistant director.
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Kurt Hoffmann's first movie as a director came 1939 into being and was called "Paradies der Junggesellen". The leading role was played by Heinz Rühmann with whom he shot a total of seven movies.
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The director Kurt Hoffmann came to Erik Charell after the examination as an unpaid trainee through his father. The first contact to the film business was done and it didn't last long till Kurt Hoffmann was engaged as an assistant director.
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Kurt Hoffmann wasn't able go on in the 60's from former successes and he retired gradually from the film business.
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German director of light entertainments, popular in the 1950's and 60's. Hoffmann trained as an assistant under Robert Siodmak and Reinhold Schünzel during the 1930's. From 1939, he began directing comedies and idyllic romances which fared extremely well at the box office: Quax, der Bruchpilot (1941), Flying Classroom (1954), Ich denke oft an Piroschka (1955) and Confessions of Felix Krull (1957). He was also credited with discovering the actress Liselotte Pulver for the screen.
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