Christine Edzard (born 15 February 1945)Christine Edzard
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, and

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, nominated for

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awards for her screenwriting. She has been based in London for most of her career, where she co-founded Sands Films.

Early life

Edzard was born and raised in Paris by her German-born father, Dietz Edzard, and Polish mother, Suzanne Eisendieck, both painters. After a degree in economics she trained as a set and costume designer with

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and Rostislav Doboujinsky. She assisted Di Nobili on

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's productions of ''

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in 1963 and 1968.

Career

Edzard co-wrote and designed the film '' The Tales of Beatrix Potter'' (1971), for which she was nominated for two

awards for Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction. With her husband, the film producer Richard B. Goodwin, she founded the Sands Films studio and production company in

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, London in 1975. The studios include the Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, a free resource for the general public, and the building was awarded a Blue Plaque in 2009, unveiled in January that year by

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. Over the years Sands Films has made and supplied period costumes for international film and TV productions. Edzard is best known for her film adaptation of

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's novel, ''

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'' (1988), a British film for which she was nominated for an

, a

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, and a Los Angeles Film Critics Award.

Director and writer filmography

* '' The Good Soldier Schwejk'' (2018) direction, screenplay) * '' The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream'' (2001) (direction, design) * '' The IMAX Nutcracker'' (1997) (screenplay, design, direction) *'' Amahl and the Night Visitors'' (1996) - filmed opera by

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(direction, set and costume design) * ''

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'' (1991) (direction, design) * '' The Fool'' (1990) (screenplay adapted from

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, design, direction) * ''

'' (1987) (screenplay, direction, design) * '' Biddy'' (1983) (screenplay, direction) * '' The Nightingale'' (1981) (screenplay, direction) *'' Stories from a Flying Trunk'' (1979) (three short films, ''Little Ida'' (1975), ''The Kitchen'' (1975) and ''The Little Match Girl'' (1975)) * '' The Tales of Beatrix Potter'' (1971)

Making and Supplying of period costumes

References

External links

*
Sands Films official websiteGuardian articleFinancial Times articleGreenwich Society history of Sands FilmsThe Costume Society
* ttps://bbashakespeare.warwick.ac.uk/productions/you-it-1992-grices-wharf-sands-films Warwick University Shakespeare Projectbr>Rotislav Doboujinsky in the V&A CollectionsLila De Nobili in the V&A Collections
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