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Curt Siodmak
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10 August 1902 - 2 September 2000
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He was born in Dresden on August 10, 1902. Prior to writing and film, he worked as an engineer and reporter. In 1926, Sjodmak and his wife made a report from the filming of Fritz Lang's film Metropolis. The first films based on Sjodmak’s books, Flucht in Die Fremdenlegion and Mascottchen, were made in 1929. In 1932, he wrote the script for a science fiction film based on his novel F.P. 1 Antwortet Nicht. After the Nazis came to power, Kurt Sjodmak moved to the UK, where he worked as a screenwriter,
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He was born in Dresden on August 10, 1902. Prior to writing and film, he worked as an engineer and reporter. In 1926, Sjodmak and his wife made a report from the filming of Fritz Lang's film Metropolis. The first films based on Sjodmak’s books, Flucht in Die Fremdenlegion and Mascottchen, were made in 1929. In 1932, he wrote the script for a science fiction film based on his novel F.P. 1 Antwortet Nicht. After the Nazis came to power, Kurt Sjodmak moved to the UK, where he worked as a screenwriter, and in 1937 moved to Hollywood, where he became with his brother, director Robert Sjodmak, widely known for his work on such films as The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The Wolf Man (1941), IWalked with a Zombie (1943), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), and Son of Dracula (1943). In 1942, he published the novel Donovan's Brain, which became a horror fiction classic and was filmed three times - in 1944 (The Lady and the Monster), in 1953 (Donovan's Brain) and in 1962 (Ein Toter sucht seinen Morder). The writer and director died on September 2, 2000 at his ranch in California, where he had lived since 1958.
At the 1998 Berlin Film Festival, he was awarded the Berlinale Camera Award.