![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director Born: June 24, 1934 in Berlin, Germany Biography:British director "Michael Tuchner"'s first two films, "Villain" (1971) and "Fear is the Key" (1972), dealt (none too successfully) with the evil side of life; he changed direction (and quality of production) with "Mr. Quilp" (1975), a musical version of The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens' most sentimental novel) and the TV movie "Summer of My German Soldier" (1979), about a Jewish girl in love with a Nazi P.O.W. in the American South, complete with a sympathetic black housekeeper. Among Tuchner's other credits include the film of Brooke Hayward's memoir of her family ("Haywire" [1980]), and a respectable version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1981), featuring "Anthony Hopkins" as Quasimodo. ~ All Movie Guide
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