Robert Fischer (b. 1954, Greven, Germany) is one of Germany’s foremost film historians, and since 1999 he has also made documentaries. He is the author of numerous books about world directors (Hitchcock, Welles, Lynch, Tarantino, Melville, Fassbinder, Bresson), and the French Minister of Culture conferred upon him the Order of Arts and Letters for translating the complete works of François Truffaut into German. With colleague Joe Hembe he wrote a history of modern German film. After five years working for the Munich Film Museum, where he participated in the reconstruction of Orson Welles’s unfinished pictures, he decided to try his hand at documentaries. He has shot numerous works dedicated to leading figures of world cinema, including Monsieur Truffaut Meets Mr. Hitchcock (1999) Milos Forman: Film Is Truth (2000), Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002), Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006).
46. IFF Karlovy Vary
