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Ruth Beckermann

Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1952 (74 years)
The filmmaker and writer was born in Vienna, Austria. Her films include The Paper Bridge and East of War. Her film Those Who Go Those Who Stay won Best Documentary at the 2014 Diagonale in Graz. Two years later, The Dreamed Ones won Beat Feature Film at the same festival. The Waldheim Waltz received several prizes including the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award at the 2018 Berlinale and was also nominated as Austria’s entry for the Oscars. In 2022, MUTZENBACHER screened in the Encounters section of the Berlinale where it won the award for Best Film.

Known For

  • The Waldheim Waltz
  • Favoriten
  • Mutzenbacher
  • Perla
  • The Dreamed Ones
  • East of War
  • Homemad(e)
  • Return to Vienna
  • The Paper Bridge
  • American Passages
  • Those Who Go Those Who Stay
  • A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
  • Toward Jerusalem
  • God Between Us

Ruth Beckermann Filmography

2022
Mutzenbacher · as Self (voice)
2018
The Waldheim Waltz · as Self - Narrator
2007
Willkommen Österreich (TV Series) · as Self
1991
Movie Days (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee

2013
Those Who Go Those Who Stay · as Director Of Photography
2001
Homemad(e) · as Director Of Photography

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