Heiner Stadler was born in 1948. After his schooling, he worked as a photoreporter. He broke off Theater and Art History studies to attend the film school in Munich until 1975. Before he started making his own films, he worked as a cameraman on numerous documentary and feature films. His award-winning films include: "King Kongs Faust" (1984), "Gold!" (1988), "Das Ende einer Reise" (documentary, 1992), "Hannibal" (documentary, 1993), "Warshots" (1996), "Der Kunstdetektiv" (documentary, 2001), and "Eat, Sleep, No Women" ("Essen, Schlafen, keine Frauen", 2002), among others.

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