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name: "Bernard Eisenschitz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bernard-eisenschitz"
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imdb_id: "nm0252065"
tmdb_id: 1359334
wikidata_id: "Q2897859"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "3 July 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-26T17:36:15.783502+00:00"
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# Bernard Eisenschitz

## Identity

Bernard Eisenschitz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bernard-eisenschitz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bernard-eisenschitz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0252065
- **TMDB ID:** 1359334
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2897859
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Eisenschitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2897859, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252065/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1359334

Writer. Born 3 July 1944 in Saint-Calais.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 3 July 1944, Saint-Calais
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 86 (1), 1980s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Eisenschitz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2897859, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0252065/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1359334

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Wings of Desire*](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Bernard Eisenschitz (born 3 July 1944) is a French film critic, historian and subtitler. He has contributed to publications including *Cahiers du cinéma* and edited works by Georges Sadoul. In 2001 he founded the periodical *Cinéma* and completed the definitive restoration of Jean Vigo's *L'Atalante*.

Eisenschitz has occasionally acted in films by directors including Jacques Rivette, Jean Eustache, Otar Iosseliani and Wim Wenders. He appears in *Out 1* (1971), *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), *Favourites of the Moon* (1984) and *Wings of Desire* (1987), on which he also received a screenplay collaboration credit. He has directed documentaries on film restoration and filmmakers such as Fritz Lang and Charlie Chaplin.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *Wings of Desire* (1987), Fi1m 88, as In the Library - The Angel — [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), Fi1m 86, as Café de Flore's Customer (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mother-and-the-whore.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Don Juan* (2022), as Spectateur
- *L'homme qui part* (2020), as Le père
- *Winter Shooting: L'Atalante - Rushes and Outtakes* (2017), as Narration · Director
- *Young Devils in School: Zéro de conduite — Rushes, Sound, and Images* (2017), Director
- *Debra Paget, For Example* (2016), Thanks
- *Two Rémi, Two* (2015), as Jacques Murat
- *The Idiot* (2008), as Totsky
- *Death's Glamour* (2007), as L'opticien
- *Les messages de Fritz Lang* (2003), as Narrateur · Director, Writer
- *Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux* (2003), Director
- *Les voyages de L'Atalante* (2001), as Narrator (voice) · Director, Writer
- *JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait in December* (1995), as (uncredited)
- *The Children Play Russian* (1993), as Harry Blount
- *The Persistence of Vision* (1993), Actor
- *Golem, the Spirit of Exile* (1992), as Daniel
- *Out 1* (1990), as Un pornographe
- *Berlin-Jerusalem* (1989), as Man in Berlin cafe
- *Wings of Desire* (1987), as In the Library - The Angel · Screenplay — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/wings-of-desire.md)
- *What Do Those Old Films Mean?* (1986), Script Consultant
- *Favorites of the Moon* (1985), as Gustave
- *Actualités – sept ou huit scènes de mai 68* (1974), Director
- *Printemps 58* (1974), Director
- *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), as Café de Flore's Customer (uncredited) — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mother-and-the-whore.md)
- *Out 1* (1971), series, as Un pornographe
- *Un troisième* (1970), Thanks
- *Jean Renoir : Partie de campagne* (1969), Director
- *Retour d'Henri Langlois à Paris* (1968), Director
- *À la dure*, Actor

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Reinhold Schünzel Award 2012: Reinhold Schünzel Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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