Harold von Kursk

Harold von Kursk (born 5 September 1960, in Berlin, Germany) is a Canadian film director and journalist.
Early life
Born into a German military family, he was raised in Canada after his family emigrated from Germany, first arriving in Edmonton, Alberta, before settling in Montreal, Quebec. He spent summers as a child living with his uncle Georg on a vineyard in Argentina. He would go on to attend McGill University, Yale University, and the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television.
Career
Following his film studies, he directed TV commercials before working as a film critic at the Montreal Daily News (1987-89). He then moved to Paris where he worked as a celebrity journalist (Entrevue) and screenwriter prior to directing his first feature In the Midnight Hour in 1994. He subsequently directed Panic (director’s cut) in 1996 in Montreal, Canada before leaving the project after the production company went bankrupt. He then settled in Munich, Germany where he founded Vertigo Films under whose imprimatur he produced and directed several TV-movies. In 2001, he directed Nuits d'amour in Paris.
In 2004, he was working on Garbo, an international co-production on the life of Greta Garbo when the German co-producer filed for bankruptcy and the financing collapsed.
Kursk recently established offices in Rome, Italy to begin pre-production work on Lara's Home, based on his screenplay and which he is slated to begin directing in April, 2010. The film is a France-Italy co-production. Also preparing German TV-mini-series Vintage Affair.
Personal life
Kursk is the direct descendant of the founders of Kursk city in Russia. He is the father to three children, Adrian, Olivier, and Alix. He has never married. He dated Judith Godreche and Eva Herzigova in 1990s. Kursk considers Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, and Krzysztof Kieslowski his greatest influences: "They are the Gods of cinema."

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