Born in 1949 in Czechoslovakia and based in France, Stan Neumann started his film career as an editor and he makes inventively constructed documentaries on culture and history. He has made more than 50 documentary films or series, among others: The Last Marranos (70’, 1990); Paris, le roman d’une ville (51’, 1991); A House in Prague (70’, 1998); Norman Mailer’s America (3 x 52’, 1998 - 1999); Apparatchiks & Businessmen (52’, 2001); Language Does Not Lie / Diaries Written under the Third Reich (80’, 2003 - 2004); Stargazer, (90’, 2010); La Photographie Conceptuelle (26’, 2012); Les Modernistes (26’, 2012); Austerlitz (90’, adapted from the novel by G.W.Sebald, 2014). Since 1994, along with Richard Copans, he has been in charge of the TV collection Architectures (62x26’).
France