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Hein Heckroth

Hein Heckroth

Art

Biography

German surrealist painter, who made his reputation as a production designer for German ballet and theatre. He moved to Britain in 1935 as a set and costume designer. In 1948, he became chief production designer for Powell and Pressburger, best known for The Red Shoes (1948) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

Known For

A Matter of Life and Death
7.8

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

A Matter of Life and Death

1946
Torn Curtain
6.6

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

Torn Curtain

1966
The Red Shoes
8.0

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

The Red Shoes

1948
Black Narcissus
7.5

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

Black Narcissus

1947
The Battle of the River Plate
6.4

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.

The Battle of the River Plate

1956
The Girl and the Legend
6.1

London, in 1730. Charly, Jim and Ben work hard, with the brave Maud, in a cotton mill to earn a few shillings. They all dream of the wonderful island told by Daniel Defoe. The latter lives in a miserable room. He is disgraced and rejected by his son Tom, a scoundrel who blames his father for losing his position at the Court ...

The Girl and the Legend

1957
The Threepenny Opera
5.8

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

The Threepenny Opera

1963
Gone to Earth
6.2

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin, a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her, despite the purer amorous intentions of the local pastor.

Gone to Earth

1950
The Small Back Room
6.8

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

The Small Back Room

1949
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
5.0

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.

The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

1953
The Tales of Hoffmann
7.1

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

The Tales of Hoffmann

1951
Peterchens Mondfahrt
7.8

The story of Little Peter and his sister Anneli, who help a May beetle named Mr. Zoomzeman (German: Herr Summsemann) to retrieve his missing sixth leg from the Moon. After a fantastic and dangerous overnight adventure they recover the leg and are returned to their beds at home.

Peterchens Mondfahrt

1959
Ludwig II
7.2

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.

Ludwig II

1955
Oh... Rosalinda!!
6.1

Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.

Oh... Rosalinda!!

1955
The Haunted Castle
6.8

The ghosts of thieves help a beautiful young countess save her inherited castle from modern developers in this comic horror/musical.

The Haunted Castle

1960
The Elusive Pimpernel
6.0

Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.

The Elusive Pimpernel

1950
Bluebeard's Castle
7.8

Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take her place.

Bluebeard's Castle

1963
“The Red Shoes” Sketches
N/A

A 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle.

“The Red Shoes” Sketches

1948