Stan Neumann

Born in Czechoslovakia and based in France, Stan Neuman started his film career as an editor and makes inventively constructed documentaries on culture and history. In La Langue ne ment pas, based on the journals of German-Jewish intellectual Victor Klemperer, he employs fabricated props and re-enactments to evoke Klemperer’s wartime experience. He decries the “new naturalism” of many TV documentaries, criticizing what he views as a facile over-emphasis on confessional interviews. Visual imagination is key in his work: “We (documentary filmmakers) are painters in a way, and we must pay attention to form.”

Selected Filmography

L'expressionnisme Allemand (2006)

The language Doesn't Lie (2004)
Prix Scam du Meilleur documentaire

A House in Prague (1998)

Paris, Story of a City (1991)
FIFARC — Prix de la Ville de Bordeaux au Festival Art et Architecture de Graz — Grand Prix

Louvre: A Museum in Time (1993)

Nadar: Photogapher (1994)
Festival International du Film sur l’Art et Pédagogique de Paris — Grand Prix

Rainer Maria Rilke (1996)

The Last Marranas (1990)
Berlin Film Festival Winner — Prix Futura