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Richard Schott
director, writer
- Professions:
- director, writer
Biography
Before he ever stepped in front of a camera, Berlin-born Richard Schott had already conquered the stage, but when the new century’s flickering lights called, he answered with three lightning-quick appearances that still echo in film archives. In 1914 alone, he slipped into the iron chancellor’s frock coat for Bismarck, then traded politics for Corsican heat as the doomed protagonist of Mateo Falcone, der Corse. Three years later, cameras rolled across East Prussia’s lakes and pines to capture Ostpreussen und sein Hindenburg, and Schott—ever the chameleon—stood at the center, anchoring history to celluloid. After those whirlwind releases, the quiet returned; the reels, however, keep spinning.
