Hollywood Profile - Kirk Douglas

A film by Georg Stefan Troller

The great actor Kirk Douglas has embodied so many heroic characters – from Spartacus to van Gogh. He became unforgettable with films like Young Man With A Horn and Gunfight At the O.K. Coral. But he has rarely played a role so similiar to his own personality as in his film Diamonds: It is that of the eternal seeker who finally rediscovers his Jewish and proletarian roots in the autumn of his life, after a helicopter accident and a stroke which almost deprived him of the ability to speak. We watch him during the shooting in Reno with Lauren Bacall and we also go back to his roots and visit his birthplace in Amsterdam – a small town in the state of New York.

"I made so many movies, sometimes three or four a year, so I didn't have the time to sit down and think about myself. But I think it's very important for everybody to take inventory of themselves, to get to know themselves, to find out that you like yourself".

Kirk Douglas

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Author and Director	Georg Stefan Troller
Director of Photography	Stefan Schindler, Bernd Meiners
Sound Mixer	Claudia Katayanagi
Editor	Gaby Kull-Neujahr
Music	Thomas Osterhoff, Harald Kloser
Technical Supervisor	Bjoern Jensen
Production Manager	Steffi Kullen
Supervising producer	Bjoern Jensen
Coproducer	Hubert von Spreti (BR), Laura Cheshire
Producer	Joerg Bundschuh