Harry Kümel

Known for DirectingBorn 1940-01-27 (age 86)Antwerp, Belgium

Harry Kümel (born 27 January 1940) is a Belgian film director. His 1971 vampire feature Daughters of Darkness (Les lèvres rouges; Fr, "The Red Lips"), starring Delphine Seyrig became a cult hit in Europe and the United States. He also directed the film version of Malpertuis (1971), featuring Orson Welles and adapted from the 1943 novel by Jean Ray. He also directed Monsieur Hawarden (1969). From 1969 until the present, Kümel has taught cinema at several film institutes, including The Dutch Film and Television Academy - Amsterdam (NFTA), Institut des Arts de Diffusion - Brussels (IAD), Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound - Brussels (RITS), and the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).Read more

Movies & web series

De droomproducenten

Josef von Sternberg, A Retrospective

Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

Tales of the Uncanny

Hollywood by Bike

Janssen & Janssens draaien een film

Forgotten Scares: An In-depth Look at Flemish Horror Cinema

The Warden of the Tomb

The Arrival of Joachim Stiller

Eline Vere

Malpertuis

Monsieur Hawarden

Daughters of Darkness

Softly from Paris

The Secrets of Love: Three Rakish Tales

Aether

Princess

Paradise Lost

My Nights with Susan, Sandra, Olga & Julie

Europe - 99euro-films 2

The White Slave

Het Beest

Daughters of Darkness: Locations of Darkness

Malpertuis Archive

Malpertuis Revisited

Orson Welles Uncut

Anna the Maid