Romuald Karmakar
Screenwriter, Film director
1965 –
Who is Romuald Karmakar?
Romuald Karmakar is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of an Indian father and a French mother. From 1977 to 1982 he lived in Athens. He has won several national and international awards, including the German National Film Award in Gold in 1996 for Der Totmacher. His work has been honored with several retrospectives at festivals and cinematheques. In 2008, the MoMA celebrated his film Das Himmler-Projekt as one of the top 250 most important artistic acquisitions of the Museum since 1980. A member of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Karmakar is internationally regarded for his honest representation of the less attractive aspects of society by focusing on those perpetrators responsible for these downfalls. Karmakar is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He has been invited as one of the four artists to represent Germany at the German Pavilion at the Art Venice Biennale in 2013.
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- Born
- Feb 15, 1965
Wiesbaden - Also known as
- Romuald Karmaker
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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