Joerg Kalt

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Joerg Kalt or Jörg Kalt (born January 11, 1967 - died July 1, 2007 was an Austrian film director and cinetographer best known for his film Crash Test Dummies.

Kalt was born in Suresnes near Paris and grew up in Switzerland and Germany. He studied German and law before working as a journalist. He made his first film "Eternity Starts Here" in 1993 while studying at a film school in Prague and moved to Vienna the following year. His best known film apart from "Crash Test Dummies" was "Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht" ("Direction Future Through the Night"). [1]

He killed himself in July 2007 while working on two projects "Tiere" ("Animals,") and "Zum Essen" ("To Eat") . [2]

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  1. ^ AP via MSN "Cinematographer Joerg Kalt dead at 40, family says he committed suicide" 4 July 2007
  2. ^ AP via MSN "Cinematographer Joerg Kalt dead at 40, family says he committed suicide" 4 July 2007

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