{{Short description|German film director}} {{Expand German|topic=bio|Haro Senft|date=January 2014}} {{Use DMY dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = <!-- use common name/article title --> | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|09|27}} | birth_place = Czechoslovakia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|02|04|1928|09|27}} | death_place = Munich, Bavaria, Germany | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist|filmmaker}} | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Haro Senft''' (27 September 1928, Budweis, Czechoslovakia (now České Budějovice, Czech Republic – 4 February 2016, Munich) was a German filmmaker who was one of the founders of the New German Cinema movement. His short documentary film ''Kahl'' about the Kahl Nuclear Power Plant received an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject nomination in 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.german-films.de/filmarchive/browse-archive/view/detail/mode/oscar_doc/film/kahl/|title=KAHL|work=German Films Service|accessdate=17 January 2014|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230800/http://www.german-films.de/filmarchive/browse-archive/view/detail/mode/oscar_doc/film/kahl/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300289/Kahl/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015213123/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300289/Kahl/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-15 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide |title=NY Times: Kahl |accessdate=2008-11-29}}</ref> In 2013, he received the Berlinale Camera award at the Berlin International Film Festival.<ref name="Fuller">{{cite news|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/new-german-cinema-pioneer-haro-senft-to-receive-berlinale-camera|title=New German Cinema Pioneer Haro Senft to Receive Berlinale Camera|last=Fuller|first=Devin Lee|date=18 January 2012|work=Indiewire|accessdate=17 January 2014}}</ref>
==Selected filmography== * ''Kahl'' (1961, short documentary) * ''The Smooth Career'' (1967) * ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Purgatory (1971 film)|de|3=Fegefeuer (1971)|lt=Purgatory}}'' (1971) * ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Ein Tag mit dem Wind|de}}'' (1978) * ''Jacob hinter der blauen Tür'' (1987) * ''Lebewohl, Fremde'' (1991)
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0784236}} *[http://www.haro-senft.de/ Filmmaker's website] (in German)
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