Peter Krüger
Born
Peter Elvier Albert Walter Krüger

(1970-08-09) 9 August 1970
Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
Occupation(s)Inti Films Executive Director, Film director, film producer, screenwriter
Years active1993–present

Peter Krüger (born 9 August 1970) is a Belgian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the fiction film N - The Madness of Reason (2014), winning the Ensor Award for Best Film, and Antwerp Central (2011) winning the Grand Prize at this 29th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal.[1]

Early life

Krüger is the only child from the marriage of Jan Krüger, a Belgian mathematician, and Agnes Claeys, historian. He was born and raised in Ghent. In 1978 he began studying music at the Music School and later studied piano with the Belgian pianist and composer Claude Coppens at the Royal Conservatory. In 1988 he went to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he attended the University of Alabama to study American Literature and Art History. In 1989 he returned to Belgium and to attend classes at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Leuven and the Institute for Cultural Studies (Instituut voor Culturele Studies). By 1994, Krüger graduated with a Master's degree in philosophy from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

After graduating, Krüger began studying film script writing, directing, and producing. He took a Basic Script Writing course at the Flemish Script Academy (Vlaamse Script Academie) in Brussels and completed several European training programs supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union: North by Northwest, the Northern European screen writing development program in Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Dublin; and Strategic Film Financing, and Strategic Film Marketing in Luxembourg. In 2000 Krüger went to Maine, United States to study a Master Class Film Directing with American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer Paul Schneider; and in Los Angeles, United States he enrolled in an acting workshop with the American, author, script analyst, and actress Judith Weston.

Career

In 1993 Krüger co-founded, with Belgian writer and director Peter Brosens, Inti Films, a Brussels-based film production company. At Inti Films Krüger produced, amongst others, such award-winning films as 2012’s Kinshasa Kids, an official selection at Venice Days; Renzo Martens' 2013 Enjoy Poverty, an art film on the exploitation of third world poverty; and Peter Brosens' internationally acclaimed Mongolia trilogy, consisting of the documentaries City of the Steppes (1993), State of Dogs (1998) and Poets of Mongolia (1999).

Krüger directed the award winning Antwerp Central,[2][3] a documentary-feature from Sophimages, which was produced by Jan Roekens.[4] The film, which is based on the book Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, features Antwerp’s main railway station as a location where history, daily life, fiction, and reality are in constant flux. Running as a thread through the film are the dreams and reminiscences of a traveler, who arrives at Antwerp Central and through whose eyes we observe the station. The traveler is played by Belgian actor Johan Leysen (who in 2010 appeared with acclaimed actor George Clooney in The American).[5] Antwerp Central won the Grand Prix at the 29th International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal.

Krüger's second feature film, N - The Madness of Reason, was written in collaboration with Nigerian-born poet and novelist Ben Okri. The film follows the spirit of Raymond Borremans (Michael Lonsdale), a French man who left Europe and who dies in 1988 in Abidjan. His spirit wanders across the West-African continent and evokes a confrontation between European and West-African culture. The film was released at the Berlinale 2014 and is three times winner of the ENSOR awards at the 2015 Ostend Film Festival. In 2014 N - The Madness of Reason received the Jury Award for Best Film at Cine Migrante International Film Festival, Brasilia, Brazil.[6]

In 2017 Krüger was announced to direct The Age of Magic, a film adaptation of Ben Okri's 2014 novel The Age of Magic.[7]

Filmography

Year Title Role Type Notes
2019 The Age of Magic Writer, director Feature film Scrip and development award Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF).
2014 N - The Madness of Reason Writer, director, producer Feature film Produced by Inti Films & co-produced by Cobra Films, Dieptescherpte, Blinker Filmproduktion.
Won the Ensor Award for Best Film, Best Editing and Best Music at the 2015 Ostend Film Festival and got nominated for the Best D.O.P.[8][9]
Nominated - 2014 Jury Award for Best Film, Cine Migrante International Film Festival, Brasilia, Brazil.
2011 Antwerp Central Writer, director Feature documentary film Produced by Sophimages.
Grand Prize at the 29th Festival international du film sur l'art / FIFA - International Festival of Films on Art in Montreal.
2007 The Last Sigh Writer, director Documentary Produced by Inti Films.
2004 The Monastery of Beniktbeuern Writer, director Documentary Produced by Wajnbrosse Productions and ARTE France.
2003 Les Thermes de Karlovy Vary Writer, director Documentary Produced by Wajnbrosse Productions and ARTE France.
2002 The Strange Man Writer, director Fiction film Produced by Inti Films.
2001 The Eclipse of Sint-Gillis Writer, director Creative documentary Produced by Inti Films.
1999 Poets of Mongolia Writer, director Creative documentary Produced by Inti Films and Millennium Film.
1998 Roberte’s Dance Writer, director,
co-director Gerrit Messiaen		 Documentary Produced by Inti Films, d.net.work, and ZDF/ARTE.
1997 Nazareth Peter Krüger Creative documentary Produced by Inti Films.
1995 News Items Writer, director,
co-director Gerrit Messiaen		 Documentary Produced by Inti Films.

References

  1. ↑ 'Antwerpen Centraal' in de prijzen op filmfestival Montréal demorgen.be, 3 May 2011.
  2. ↑ Station van Antwerpen decor voor documentairefilm Archived 6 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine canvas.be, 4 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Antwerp Central Station grabs Grand Prize at FIFA flandersimage.com, 27 March 2011.
  4. ↑ Antwerp Central flandersimage.com
  5. ↑ Antwerp Central (Antwerpen Centraal), Press-kit Brussels: Sophimage.
  6. ↑ N - The Madness of Reason screener.be.
  7. ↑ Peter Krüger verfilmt laatste roman Ben Okri LBU, Bruzz.be, 13 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "N" en "Waste land" grote winnaars op de Ensors Ludwig De Wolf, deredactie.be, 19 September 2015.
  9. ↑ N: The Madness of Reason is the surprise winner of the 2015 Ensors Aurore Engelen, cineuropa.org, 21 September 2015.
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