Film Archive

Personal Info

Stefan Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna in 1961. He studied Theater and History and attended film courses and seminars by such industry figures as Syd Field, Zdenek Mahler and Vilmos Zsigmond. In the first half of the 1980s, he worked in the theater as a director and wrote radio plays for the Austrian broadcaster ORF. From 1987, Ruzowitzky worked as a freelance director and author for television, commercials and music videos. In 1996, he made his feature directorial debut with Tempo, which won the Max Ophuels Award in 1997. His second feature, The Inheritors (Die Siebtelbauern, 1997), was sold to 50 countries and was the Austrian entry for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1999. Since then, he has made Anatomy (Anatomie, 2000), All the Queen's Men (2001), Anatomy 2 (Anatomie 2, 2002), The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher, 2006), and Lilly the Witch - The Dragon and the Magic Book (Hexe Lilli - Der Drache und das Magische Buch, 2009).

Filmography