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Reinhold Schünzel Award


The Reinhold Schünzel Award is an honorary prize awarded for long-time achievements in the field of restoration, preservation or dissemination and popularisation of the German film heritage.

Reinhold Schünzel was an actor and director, born in Hamburg. After returning from exile in Hollywood he died in Munich in 1954.

The laureate of the Reinhold Schünzel Award 2009 will be announced during the opening ceremony of cinefest on Saturday, 14 November 2009.

— Jury 2009:
Hervé Dumont, Direktor der Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne
Mariann Lewinsky, film historian and festival curator, Zurich
Wolfgang Klaue, former president of FIAF and director of the national filmarchive of the GDR, Reinhold Schünzel laureate 2005



The Reinhold Schünzel Award 2008 went to

Vladimír Opěla

Director of the Nationale Film Archive in Prague


Vladimír Opěla

Previous laureates:

2007: Gero Gandert (more)

2006: Vittorio Martinelli (more)

2005: Wolfgang Klaue (more)

2004: Ingrid Scheib-Rothbart (more)



Deutsche Version


Cinefest 2009 Trailer

20 years city partnership Hamburg-Prague

To celebrate the anniversary, CineGraph invited filmmakers from both cities to meet in Hamburg (and in October in Prague) to present their work more

Flyer cinefest 2010 (pdf)

cinefest 2010 will take place in Hamburg from 13 - 21 November. Flyer as pdf-Download available



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