Michael Bergmann
American filmmaker
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Michael Bergmann is an American writer, director, and producer.
Michael Bergmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Occupations | Writer, director, producer |
| Parent | Martin S. Bergmann |
| Relatives | Hugo Bergman (grandfather) |
Biography
Michael Bergmann graduated with a B.A. in Latin from Columbia University in 1975 and studied film concurrently at N.Y.U. Undergraduate Film School. He went on to study at the N.Y.U. Graduate School of Film and Television.[citation needed] He is married to the sculptor Meredith Bergmann.
Bergmann is the son of two Freudian psychoanalysts and the grandson of Hugo Bergmann, a philosopher who was one of the founders of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.[1] He is also the great-grandson of Berta Fanta, a Prague salonière whose circle included Franz Kafka and Max Brod.
Filmography
Bergmann's films include:
- Milk & Money (1996) with Calista Flockhart, Margaret Colin, Marin Hinkle, Olympia Dukakis, Dina Merrill, Robert Vaughn and Peter Boyle
- Trifling With Fate (2000) with Bridget Moynahan, Gordon Elliott, Vivienne Benesch, Jason Butler Harner, Teri Lamm and Sarah Winkler
- In Bed with My Books (2002) (Short)
- Aftershock (2002) (Short) – Jury Award for Best Short Film, Whitehead International Film Festival[2]
- The Reality Trap (2005) with Bonnie Loren, Kevin Stapleton and Hedy Burress
- Tied to a Chair (2009) with Bonnie Loren, Mario Van Peebles and Robert Gosset
- Influence (2015)
Bergmann wrote the libretto for Stefania de Kenessey's opera The Bonfire of the Vanities: The Opera, based on Tom Wolfe’s novel The Bonfire of the Vanities, and directed the premiere in New York on October 9, 2015.[3]