Spaghetti Western Director ~ Hermine Huntgeburth
Hermine Huntgeburth is a German film director and
producer known for her versatile work in feature films and television,
encompassing commercially successful family entertainment, literary
adaptations, and critically acclaimed character studies. Her films often blend
accessible storytelling with nuanced explorations of human relationships,
earning her both broad audiences and industry recognition.
Born on November 13, 1957, in Paderborn, Huntgeburth
studied film at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg and continued her
education in Sydney in 1983 on a DAAD scholarship. She began her career with
short films and screenwriting before making her feature debut with “Im Kreise
der Lieben” (1991), which received the German Film Prize for Best Up-and-Coming
Director.
She achieved significant commercial success with the
children's film “Bibi Blocksberg” (2002) and the romantic drama “The White
Massai” (2005), the latter becoming the most successful German feature film of
its year. Further notable cinema works include the period adaptation “Effi
Briest” (2009), the family adventures “Tom Sawyer” (2011) and “The Adventures
of Huck Finn” (2012), and the Udo Lindenberg biopic “Lindenberg! Mach dein Ding”
(2020). In television, she has directed numerous films and episodes, receiving
multiple Grimme-Preis awards along with Bavarian Television Prizes and other
honors for productions such as ‘Teufelsbraten’ (2007), ‘Neue Vahr Süd’ (2010),
and ‘Männertreu’ (2014). Huntgeburth is also a member of the Akademie der
Künste since 2005.
As mentioned above Hermine Huntgeburth directed two
Euro-westerns: “Tom Sawyer” in 2011 and “Abenteuer des Huck Finn” (The
Adventures of Huck Finn) in 2012.
HUNTGEBURTH, Hermine [11/13 1957,
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany -
] – producer, director, writer, actress, married to producer, director,
writer Volker Einrauch [1950- ].
Tom Sawyer - 2011
The Adventures of
Huck Finn – 2012
Spaghetti Western
Screenwriter ~ Marco de Gastyne
Marc Henri Benoist,
known as Marco de Gastyne, was born in Paris XVII where he died on November 8,
1982. It was a French painter, who became director.
Son of the writer
Jules Benoist, better known as Jules de Gastyne, and the brother of the chief
editor Guy de Gastyne, he studied painting (first Prix de Rome in 1911), and is
admitted as a boarder at Villa Medici from 1911 to 1913. In 1914, he married
Mary Christian, opera singer, with whom he had a daughter and whom he divorced
after 10 years.
He then turned to
the cinema, first as a director for René Le Somptier, Germaine Dulac or Robert
Boudrioz1, then became director from 1922. In 1924, he remarried with Choura
Milé na, of Russian origin, which he plays in his films. During the mute
period, he toured La Chà ¢ telaine du Liban with “Arlette Marchal” (1926) and “The
Wonderful Life of Joan of Arc” with Simone Genevois (1929).
In 1930, A Beautiful
Bitch, her first talking movie, is a commercial success1, but will not be
repeated later. He abandons the cinema in the late 1930s, returns to painting,
then makes short films from 1945. In 1954, he filmed in Egypt a film, “The Mask
of Tutankhamun” (or the “Treasury of the Pharaohs”) who will never be ridden.
On this occasion, he would have noticed a young extras that he will send to try
his luck in Paris: we will know her later under the name of Dalida.
He resumes his
activity as a painter after having definitively left the film trays.
He was also an
illustrator, as in the newspaper La Baïonnette.
Marco de Gastyne
wrote one screenplay for a Euro-western, “La bête errante” (The Wandering
Beast) in 1931.
de GASTYNE, Marco (aka Marc de
Gastyne, Marc de gastyne) (Marc
Henri Benoist) [7/15/1888, Paris,
Île-de-France, France – 11/8/1982, Paris, Île-de-France, France] – painter,
production designer, director, actor, son of the writer Jules de Gastyne (Jules Benoist), brother of production designer, art director Guy de Gastyne (Guy Benoist) [1888–1972], married to opera singer Mary Christian (Marie
ÉLisabeth Jane Gabrielle Vien) [1886-1980] (1914-1924) father of Christian
Charles Francis Georges Benoist [1909-1969], married to actress Choura Milena
[1902-1976] (1924-19??).
The Wandering Beast
– 1931
Spaghetti Western
Cinematographer ~ Felix Meyburgh
Felix Meyburgh is a South African filmmaker. Born in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa in 1951 he attended Pretoria Boys High School graduating in 1973. Meyburgh was director of photography on various local and international feature films, working on production of advertising and documentary films for Shell, BP, Mercedes and BBC. In 2009 he retired in Knysna, focusing on landscape photography. He has a tendency to catch final pictures on the camera. There are almost no alterations in printing due to his motion picture habits. Currently he is busy researching the effect of photons, electrons and other energy radiations from the sun.
Felix Meyburgh was a co-cinematographer on one Euro-wester, “3 Bullets… for a Long Gun” with Andre Liebenberg in 1970.
MEYBURGH, Felix (aka Felix Myburgh)
[1951, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa -
] – producer, cinematographer, cameraman, married to Mags Meyburgh
father of automotive designer Eben Meyburgh [1994- ], Alex Meyburgh, grandfather of filmmaker
Catherine Meyburgh.
3 Bullets… for a
Long Gun – 1970 (co)
