Jan Harlan
Jan Harlan is a film producer and the brother of Christiane Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's widow. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on May 5, 1937.
He started out working for Kubrick as a researcher, most prominently on Napoleon,[1] Kubrick's never-filmed epic about the French military leader, in 1968, when Kubrick asked him, as a German speaker to accompany him to Romania to organise the army scenes for the film.[2] Harlan acted as Kubrick's executive producer for Barry Lyndon (1975), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and was an assistant to the producer for A Clockwork Orange (1971). Harlan was also executive producer for Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001), a collaboration between Spielberg and Kubrick. Harlan directed Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001).[3]
In 2009 he assisted Alison Castle, a Taschen editor, in creating the book "Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made"[4] and gave a talk about the Kubrick Napoleon archives at Cambridge Film Festival in September 2010 with Alison Castle.[5] He is the nephew of the infamous German, Nazi filmmaker Veit Harlan, best known as the writer and director of Jud Süß, a virulently anti-Semitic, 1940 propaganda film of the Third Reich. He has three sons, Manuel, Dominic and Ben. He is married to Maria.
He has through several years been a regular guest lecturer at the European Film College, and also at the University of Hertfordshire's Film and Television degrees, for which he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 2011[6].
[edit] References
- ^ http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6855120.ece Napoleon - Times Online
- ^ http://arsenals.lv/en/t/harlan-jan Jan Harlan Biography
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278736/ Imdb
- ^ http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/film/all/03844/facts.stanley_kubricks_napoleon_the_greatest_movie_never_made.htm Taschen Promo Video with Harlan and Kubrick
- ^ http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/films/2010/kubricks-napoleon Cambridge Film Festival Listing
- ^ http://www.herts.ac.uk/news-and-events/latest-news/2011-Graduates-Fellows-and-Honorary-Doctorates-Recognised.cfm
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