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) - ProducerMetanoia - DirectorTriegel meets Cranach (2026) - Director · WriterArnold Schönberg - Der rastlose Visionär (2024) - ProducerWinterreise (2021) - ProducerBeethoven Reloaded (2020) - ProducerLeidenschaft und Pflicht und Liebe - Die drei Leben der Clara Schumann (2019) - ProducerUniverse, Incomplete (2019) - ProducerDvořák: From the New World (2018) - ProducerAdam's Passion (2015) - ProducerThe Lost Paradise (2015) - Executive ProducerDie Thomaner (2012) - DirectorJohn Cage: Journeys in Sound (2012) - DirectorMahler: Symphony No. 4 / Schoenberg: Pelleas and Melisande (2009) - ProducerHändel Celebration Concert (2009) - ProducerEl Sistema (2008) - DirectorAmericans in Pyongyang (2008) - Executive ProducerJohann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008) - ProducerDaniel Barenboim: Beethoven - Piano Concertos 1-5 (2007) - ProducerUn Ballo in Maschera (2005) - ProducerKnowledge Is the Beginning (2005) - DirectorPierre Boulez: Emotion and Analysis (2004) - DirectorEuropakonzert 2001 from Istanbul (2001) - ProducerAbbado: The Silence that Follows the Music (1996) - Director · Writer