Paul Smaczny
Production · Producer · Executive Producer · Director
Born Jan 1, 1957
Active 1996–present
Paul Smaczny is a German-based documentary film-maker and a producer of concert and opera recordings. His latest work is the award-winning Knowledge is the Beginning, about the West-Eastern Divan orchestra.
Filmography
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 (Ricardo Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra) — ProducerEuropakonzert 2001 from Istanbul (2001) — ProducerAbbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996) — Director · WriterUn Ballo in Maschera (2005) — ProducerDvořák: From the New World (2018) — ProducerKnowledge Is the Beginning (2005) — DirectorAdam's Passion (2015) — ProducerDie Thomaner (2012) — DirectorWinterreise (2021) — ProducerMahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande (2009) — ProducerBeethoven Reloaded (2020) — ProducerArnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär (2024) — ProducerEl Sistema (2008) — DirectorJohn Cage: Journeys in Sound (2012) — DirectorDaniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5 (2007) — ProducerMetanoia — DirectorTriegel meets Cranach (2026) — Director · WriterAmericans in Pyongyang (2008) — Executive ProducerJohann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008) — ProducerLeidenschaft und Pflicht und Liebe - Die drei Leben der Clara Schumann (2019) — ProducerThe Lost Paradise (2015) — Executive ProducerPierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis (2004) — DirectorUniverse, Incomplete (2019) — ProducerHändel Celebration Concert (2009) — Producer