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Luc Bondy
Zürich, Switzerland
Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director. Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assist…
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Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director. Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1985 as a director at the Vienna Festival. He directed a staging of Tosca, by Puccini, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Both the opera, as well as the director, were greeted by loud boos on opening night, 21 September 2009. The reception was generally negative. James Levine, the music director at the Metropolitan Opera likened the production to a 'Hitchcock movie' and the cultural critic for the New York Times, Charles McGrath, felt that the new production was a part of Gelb's mission to transform the Met by emphasizing theatricality. In an interview after the premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's opera Charlotte Salomon, Bondy was asked whether his being Jewish had anything to do with his having directed the production. "So I said to her this is a production about a Jewish artist...the subject is the story of Charlotte Salomon" said Bondy, who then walked out on the interviewer. He died on 28 November 2015 in Zurich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luc Bondy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2017
False Confessions
Movie Director
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2012
28 minutes
TV show Self
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2009
The Met — Tosca
Movie Production Design
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2009
La Traversée du désir
Movie Self
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2008
La Seconde Surprise de l'amour
Movie Stage Director
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2008
Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker
TV show Self
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2008
König Lear
Movie Director
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2004
Don't Do That!
Movie Director
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2003
Pornography
Movie Screenplay
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2002
Through the Night with...
TV show Self
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2002
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
TV show Self
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2002
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container
Movie Himself
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2002
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
TV show himself
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2001
The Turn of the Screw
Movie Stage Director
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2001
Dreimal Leben
Movie Director
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1999
Figaro läßt sich scheiden
Movie Director
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1998
Sternstunde Philosophie
TV show Self
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1997
Salome
Movie Director
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1996
Verdi: Don Carlos
Movie Director
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1993
Schlusschor
Movie Director
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1993
The Absence
Movie
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1987
The Distant Land
Movie Director
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1981
In the Country of My Parents
Movie Himself
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1981
Marianne and Juliane
Movie Werner
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1981
Die Ortliebschen Frauen
Movie Director
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1976
Club 2
TV show Self
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1974
Die See
Movie Director
