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Filmmaker · Austria

Peter Patzak

Died in 2021

Peter Patzak (1945-2021), born in Vienna and raised in the working-class district of Brigittenau, studied psychology, art history and painting, then shot his first experimental films in New York, from 1968 to 1970. He directed some sixty films and, with his childhood friend Helmut Zenker, a satirical crime series produced for Austrian television from 1976 to 1983. He taught directing at the Vienna film academy from 1993 and headed it, never stopped painting, and died in Krems.

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