A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Hanus Polak
Hanus Polak Jr
Hanus Polak jun.
Birthplace:
Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Born:
March 24, 1959
Assistant Director:
1989 The Seventh Continent
1991 Obituary for a Murderer
1992 Dead Flowers
2004 Downfall
2006 Slumming
2009 Contact High
2011 Michael
2015 Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit
2024 Andrea Gets a Divorce
First Assistant Director:
1989 The Seventh Continent
1991 Obituary for a Murderer
1992 Dead Flowers
2001 The Piano Teacher
2004 Downfall
2006 Slumming
2009 Contact High
2011 Michael
2015 Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit
2021 Steirerrausch
2022 Das Weihnachtsschnitzel
2023 Steirerschuld
2024 Andrea Gets a Divorce
Teleplay:
1981 The World Machine
1989 The Seventh Continent
1991 Obituary for a Murderer
1992 Dead Flowers
2001 The Piano Teacher
2004 Downfall
2006 Slumming
2009 Contact High
2011 Michael
2015 Luis Trenker - Der schmale Grat der Wahrheit
2021 Steirerrausch
2022 Das Weihnachtsschnitzel
2023 Steirerschuld
2024 Andrea Gets a Divorce
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.