Roosevelt Island School Kid Florian Henkel Von Donnersmarck Is Director Of New Thriller, The Tourist - And Won 2007 Academy Award For Best Foreign Film About East Berlin Before The Wall Fell
The New York Times today profiled Florian Henkel Von Donnersmarck, director of new Johnny Depp/ Angelina Jolie movie "The Tourist". Mr. Von Donnersmarck was the director of the film The Lives Of Others which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and was described in the article as a:
... bleak examination of betrayal and moral corruption in East Germany...What's the Roosevelt Island connection? Well, besides the East Berlin reference, it turns out that the 37 year old Mr. Donnersmarck was a Roosevelt Islander as a child having gone to school on Roosevelt Island. According to the NY Times article Mr Donnersmarck's:
... background is intellectual and cosmopolitan. His father, a member of the German nobility who lost his fortune following World War II, was a Lufthansa executive who moved around the world. Mr. von Donnersmarck even lived as a child for a while in New York, where he went to school on Roosevelt Island and at the age of 4 saw his first movie, at the Museum of Modern Art. He expected to see “Doctor Doolittle” but was exposed instead to the German melodrama “Varieté.” He cites this experience as the start of his interest in film....Charlie Rose interviewed Mr. Donnersmarck earlier this week.
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