Clemens Klopfenstein
Biography
Born in 1944 in Tauffelen. Attended art school in Basel and in Zurich. Film courses with Kurt Früh in Zurich. Since 1963 painter and filmmaker. 1974 Grant for art in Rome. 1981 Received DAAD film grant in Berlin. Art exhibitions in Italy and Switzerland. 1998 Awarded Swiss Film Prize, Best Fiction for "The silence of men".
Filmography
- 1966 Umleitung (short film)
- 1967 Wir sterben vor (co-director, short film)
- 1968 Nach Rio (short film)
- 1970 Variété Clara (short film)
- 1974 Die Fabrikanten (fiction)
- 1979 Geschichte der Nacht (documentary)
- 1981 Transes – Reiter auf dem toten Pferd (fiction)
- 1981 E nachtlang Füürland (co-director, fiction)
- 1982 Das schlesische Tor (documentary)
- 1984 Der Ruf der Sibylla (fiction)
- 1988 Macao oder die Rückseite des Meeres (fiction)
- 1990 Stones, Storm and Water (fiction)
- 1991 Das vergessene Tal (fiction)
- 1992 Füürland 2 (co-director, fiction)
- 1994 Die Gemmi – ein Übergang (short film)
- 1997 Das Schweigen der Männer (fiction)
- 1999 Alp-Traum (Tatort) (fiction)
- 2000 WerAngstWolf (fiction)
- 2005 Die Vogelpredigt oder Das Schreien der Mönche (fiction)
- 2008 Weg nach Rio (co-director, short film)
- 2009 The It.Aliens (co-director, documentary)