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Mark Herman
Birth at
17 October 1954
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British director Mark Herman was born in 1954 in Bridlington. I came to the cinema quite late. At the age of 27, he drew cartoons at an art school, then entered the Polytechnic Institute in Leeds, and later studied as an animator at the National London Film School. Over time, he moved away from animation and became interested in directing. Herman’s first full-length film, The Messenger’s Blame, released in 1987, was a light comedy with confusion, confusion in situations and a beautiful play by actors
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British director Mark Herman was born in 1954 in Bridlington. I came to the cinema quite late. At the age of 27, he drew cartoons at an art school, then entered the Polytechnic Institute in Leeds, and later studied as an animator at the National London Film School. Over time, he moved away from animation and became interested in directing.
Herman’s first full-length film, The Messenger’s Blame, released in 1987, was a light comedy with confusion, confusion in situations and a beautiful play by actors Dudley Moore, Brian Brown, Richard Griffiths.
In 1996, Herman shot a picture based on his script “The Pipe Case”. It was another light melodrama, telling about the strike of miners in a provincial English town.
In the following years, the director shot three more films, each of which had its own unique color – “The Voice”, “Subscription”, “Petals of Hope”. Herman’s most famous work is his film.
"Boy in striped pajamas" It was released in 2008. The story of the friendship of the eight-year-old son of the head of the concentration camp with a Jewish child behind barbed wire could not leave indifferent neither the viewer nor film critics. The film was recognized as the best film in Europe in 2009 at the ceremony of awarding the film award “Goya”.