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German-language film directors

  • Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
  • Ingmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was born on the 14th of July 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden. He grew up as the son of a Lutheran minister named Erik Bergman and his wife Karin.
  • John BoormanJohn Boorman was born on the 18th of January 1933 in Shepperton, Middlesex. His father George Boorman served as a captain in the British Indian Army during…
  • Éric RohmerJean Marie Maurice Schérer was born on the 21st of March 1920 in Nancy, France. He adopted the pseudonym Éric Rohmer from two famous artists: Erich von…