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Belvedere Film: A Short History 

Belvedere Film is the 1999 re-establishment of the film studio created in Vienna, Austria in 1946 by producer August Diglas, silent-film pioneer Emmerich Hanus, and one of the youngest of the few women in history to co-found a film studio, singer and pianist Elfi von Dassanowsky. This first new postwar studio in Central Europe created important feature comedies, dramas, musicals as well as future star careers between 1946 and 1951. John Walker, the editor of Halliwell's Who's Who in Movies credits Belvedere Film for having helped "kick-start the revival of the German-language film industry."

The new Belvedere Film production company of Los Angeles and Vienna was headed by one of the original studio founders, Elfi von Dassanowsky, until her passing in 2007. It serves to distribute the historical Belvedere Film productions on video internationally and has produced, co-produced or executive produced award-winning film projects. The company is member of Film Independent, the Austrian American Film Association, the Austrian Association of Film Producers (AAFP), and the American Federation of Film Producers (AFFP).      
 
Belvedere Film LLC specializes in partnering with Central European companies and U.S. film and cable production venues to co-produce unique and high quality independent features, dramatic shorts and documentaries.



Robert Dassanowsky, CEO/Producer, Belvedere Film LLC
An acclaimed film and cultural historian, and the Director of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Robert Dassanowsky is also an independent producer and has written for stage and television. He serves on several film festival, grant-making, and editorial boards, is a member of the European Academy of Film, Austrian Academy of Film, the European Academy of Sciences and Art, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). He is the author/editor of several books including Austrian Cinema: A History (McFarland, 2005), New Austrian Film (Berghahn, 2011), Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema (Continuum, 2012), World Film Locations: Vienna (Intellect, 2012), and Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-38 (U Indiana Press 2018).


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Renowned Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard moved to a farm in the upper Austrian countryside in the 1960s.
More than 25 years after his death this film explores its rural society attempting to deal with his
​larger-than-(their)-life heritage.


Featuring Sunnyi Melles and Nicholas Ofczarek
Directed by Matthias Greuling and David Baldinger
Produced by Matthias Greuling and Robert Dassanowsky

PRODUKTION / VERLEIH / WELTVERTRIEB

Matthias Greuling Filmproduktion
Spechtgasse 57/5
2340 Mödling | Österreich
T: +43 664 462 54 44
greuling@aol.at
CO-PRODUKTION
Robert Dassanowsky
Belvedere Film (AT/USA)
belvederefilm@yahoo.com
Matthias Greuling
office@derbauerzunathal.at
MARKETING
Werbeagentur Matthias Greuling
T: +43 664 462 54 44

AMAZON PRIME STREAMING

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Produced by Ally Acker and Robert Dassanowsky,
Executive Producer Sam Pollard
A Reel Women Media and Belvedere Film Presentation
REEL HERSTORY: THE REAL STORY OF REEL WOMEN   
​Directed by Ally Acker
145 min. Documentary/Biography/History  USA 2014

DE EXPRESSIONE HUMANITATIS: ​
MUSIC AND ACTING                  Perdurabo Film/​Belvedere Film
ORF III Co-Production Documentary/Performance
50 min. Austria 2014 


De Expressione Humanitatis or MUSIC AND ACTING is a feature television documentary about actors and musicians discussing and comparing their professions and investigating why music and acting performance are so closely related -- certainly considering how many musicians move into film or theater performance and and vice versa. Further topics discussed with this illustrious round of artists are the influence of new-media on the arts, and if music and performance can still be considered aspects of a true global language. 


​Angelika Kirchschlager
Karlheinz Hackl
Erwin Kiennast
Eric Spitzer-Marlyn
Diana Kienast
Lisa Stern
Anthony Jacobson

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Host
  Peter Kutej  

Producer
Anthony Jacobson
Co-Producer 
Fanny Jacobson
Co-Producer 
Robert Dassanowsky

Co-Producer/Director 
Stefan Koller




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  • Belvedere Film
  • About
  • New and Recent Releases
  • Forthcoming
  • SHORT FILM
  • Classic Films from Austria
  • Contact