1. Romuald Karmakar was born on February 15,1965 and is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
23 Facts About Romuald Karmakar
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Romuald Karmakar was born in Wiesbaden, Germany as the son of an Indian father of Bengali descent and a French mother.
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Romuald Karmakar has won several national and international awards, including the German National Film Award in Gold in 1996 for Der Totmacher.
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Romuald Karmakar's work has been honored with several retrospectives at festivals and cinematheques.
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Romuald Karmakar is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.
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Romuald Karmakar 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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Romuald Karmakar discovered film in Munich in the 1980s with a group of friends who often met at the Werkstattkino, a legendary local underground cinema theater, and at the Filmmuseum Munich, then run by Enno Patalas, who became famous for his work with silent film restoration.
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At the age of 19, Romuald Karmakar directed several short films and his first S-8 feature-length film, Eine Freundschaft in Deutschland.
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Romuald Karmakar then directed a three-hour documentary, Warheads, which explores the lives of a German ex-Legionnaire and a British mercenary.
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In 1998, Romuald Karmakar contributed an hour-long special, Frankfurt Millennium, to a special series on the French TV channel, ARTE, for the changing century.
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In 2004, Romuald Karmakar presented two films at the Berlin International Film Festival: Nightsongs, a fictional film starring Frank Giering and Anne Ratte-Polle based on a play written by Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, and Land of Extermination, a documentary following research being done for a separate fictional film on the crimes of the Hamburg Police Battalion 101 in the former District of Lublin during German Occupation of Poland in the 1940s.
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In 2008 and 2009, Romuald Karmakar participated in three collaborative works.
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Romuald Karmakar contributed to Germany 09, a project intended to capture how filmmakers think about current day Germany, created and produced by Tom Tykwer.
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Romuald Karmakar's contribution was a film about Ramses, the eccentric owner of a declining burlesque bar in West Berlin.
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Romuald Karmakar contributed to Fruits of Confidence, a project produced and directed by Alexander Kluge, a highly influential figure in postwar German cinema.
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Romuald Karmakar contributed to 24h Berlin, a 24-hour television program featuring the work 60 film directors on the life of Berlin in one day.
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Romuald Karmakar's film focused on DJ Ricardo Villalobos, and this material became the basis for the full-length film Villalobos, which was premiered in 2009.
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At the Venice Film Festival in September 2011, Romuald Karmakar presented The Flock of the Lord, a documentary featuring footage from Rome following the death of Pope John Paul II and from the hometown of his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, during his election.
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Romuald Karmakar's work has been shown in several retrospectives, such as Cinema du Reel, Centre Pompidou, BAFICI in Buenos Aires, Vienna Filmmuseum, the Cinematheque in Vienna, and Jeonju Film Festival in South Korea.
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In June 2013, Romuald Karmakar participated in the Venice Biennale, an esteemed, international contemporary art exhibition held in Venice once every two years.
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Romuald Karmakar has found critical praise for his attention to the harsh realities of modern history.
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Romuald Karmakar's films bring his audiences to consider the imperfections of society in current times and across the last century, particularly by focusing on the perpetrators of injustice and crime.
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Romuald Karmakar is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.