Manfred Kirchheimer

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Manfred Kirchheimer is a documentary film maker and professor of film at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He previously taught at NYIT. He was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, and his family moved to New York City in 1936 to escape Nazi Germany.

01-01-1931

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Capricorn

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Total Films

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Saarbrücken, Germany

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01-01-1931

Birthday

Capricorn

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Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Saarbrücken, Germany

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Cinema and Sanctuary

The astonishing story of the first documentary film school in the USA—The Institute of Film Techniques at The City College of New York. This groundbreaking program exposed thousands of working-class kids raised on Hollywood movies to the power of documentary film - all under the watchful eye of DADAist, pioneering experimental filmmaker and radical thinker, Hans Richter.

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2019