Director Robert Schwentke: Biography, Movies

Robert Schwentke is a rather famous film director of German descent. In Russia, few people have heard of him, but in the West his works are highly appreciated.

Directed by Robert Shventke. Biography

Despite the fact that relatively little is known about his life, some information can still be found and collected together. Robert Schwentke was born in 1968 in the large German city of Stuttgart.

He spent all his childhood and youth in his native Germany, but after graduating from high school, he went to receive higher education in the United States. He enters the Columbia Film School, located directly in Hollywood. There he studied the art of filmmaking, and quite successfully.

His first attempt to create his own film was made back in 1993, when the short film Heaven! Was published, which was not officially translated into Russian. The total length of the tape was 45 minutes.

Career in the film industry

After the creation of his test film, Robert Shventke did not release films for a long time. The reasons for the long stagnation in the work was quite a lot, so do not list them within the framework of this article.

The first serious full-length of his paintings was the film "Tatu" in 2002 and the comic tape "The Egg Danderers", released on the screens of cinemas in 2003. Both of these films were shot in Germany.

Filling his hand in making films and receiving some recognition and fame, director Robert Schwentke, whose films have not yet been very successful, decides to move to a permanent residence in the United States, namely Hollywood, where he will be able to fully discover his potential and achieve High altitudes.

As he had expected, moving to America had a beneficial effect on the development of his career in film.

Robert Shventke. Films

Despite the fact that Robert began his career in cinema a long time ago, and to be precise, even from the beginning of the zero years, the number of works in which he took part is not so great.

Among the most successful and well-known paintings to which he put his hand as a film director, one can single out such films as "Time Traveler's Wife" (2008), "RED" (2010) and "Illusion of Flight" (2005), which was withdrawn He was the first after moving from Germany to the United States. The film features the well-known actress Jodie Foster.

These three films are quite a success with the audience, and professional critics are highly appreciated by many of his films.

In addition to full-length cinematographic films, Robert Schwentke is the director of the sensational series "Deceive me" (2009-2011), where the main role was played by the famous actor Tim Roth. The plot of the series is based on the book of psychologist Paul Ekman, who believes that verbal gestures and facial expressions can tell a lot about a person, including having studied all the mimic and verbal signs, one can recognize a person lying or telling the truth.

The series enjoyed considerable success in the beginning, but over time, the ratings of the series began to fall, so the company FOX was forced to roll back the project so as not to lose money on the release of the unprofitable series.

In addition to the above works, his record also includes such outstanding films as the "Time Patrol" 2013, as well as the second and third parts of the franchise "Divergent", which were released in 2015 and 2016. His last two works have become real hits among youth films, so his status as a director has increased significantly due to these tapes.

Conclusion

Robert Schwentke is a fairly well-known film director on the account of which so far only 13 full-fledged works, but most of which can be safely called outstanding.

His works invariably prove successful both commercially and in terms of creativity and audience recognition. Despite the fact that he came to the world of the American film industry relatively recently, and at the time of moving to the US, he still did not have a loud name and outstanding cinematographic works, he still managed to make a name for himself in the United States.

Today, his talent is highly valued, therefore, he is treated with due attention and respect. However, a small list of works in the portfolio of the director says that his services, although highly appreciated, are still not in high demand. Be that as it may, Robert Schwentke deserves attention and respect.