Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
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Born into an artistic family in Lübeck, Schmidt-Reitwein first studied physics before moving to Berlin to pursue film, a course halted by a three-year imprisonment after a false smuggling accusation. After his release he worked as a camera assistant in Munich, and in 1969 Werner Herzog hired him for the documentary Fata Morgana, beginning a collaboration that produced seventeen more Herzog films s…
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