Name
Harry Kümel
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1940-01-27 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Antwerp, Belgium
Biography
Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940) is a Belgian film director. His 1971 vampire feature Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges; Fr, "The Red Lips"), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He also directed the film version of Malpertuis (1971), featuring Orson Welles and adapted from the 1943 novel by Jean Ray. He also directed Monsieur Hawarden (1969).
From 1969 until the present, Kümel has taught cinema at several film institutes, including The Dutch Film and Television Academy - Amsterdam (NFTA), Institut des Arts de Diffusion - Brussels (IAD), Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound - Brussels (RITS), and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
Known For
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Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet ...
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A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films....
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Susan has chosen a hermit's life on a dilapidated farm over the shallowness of her previou...
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A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, a...
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An Antwerp journalist finds his daily life increasingly disrupted by unexplained phenomena...
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Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema,...
- 1958 Anna the Maid as Voice-over introduction
- 2020 Tales of the Uncanny as Self
- 2012 Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss as Self
- 2006 Daughters of Darkness: Locations of Darkness as self
- 2017 Forgotten Scares: An In-depth Look at Flemish Horror Cinema as Self
- 1984 De droomproducenten as Self
- 1990 Janssen & Janssens draaien een film as Self
- 1993 Hollywood by Bike as Himself
- 1978 Paradise Lost as Photographer
- 1982 Het Beest as Man op autostrade
- 2005 Malpertuis Archive
- 2005 Malpertuis Revisited
- 2005 Orson Welles Uncut as Self
