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Alma mater. San Francisco Art Institute (1980, MFA) Occupation (s) Screenwriter, director, producer. Website. mennomeyjes .com. Menno Meyjes (born 1954) is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and producer. [1] He is an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award nominee, and a Goya Award and Hugo Award winner.
- 1954 (age 68–69), Eindhoven, Netherlands
Menno Meyjes is a Dutch-born screenwriter, film director, and film producer. He was nominated for several awards for his screenplay to the film The Color Purple and gained recognition for cowriting Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and winning a Goya Award for El Sueño Del Mono Loco.
4 Photos. Menno Meyjes was born in 1954 in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is a writer and director, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Color Purple (1985) and The Siege (1998). More at IMDbPro.
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- Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
The Color Purple is a 1985 American epic coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize –winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, marking a turning point in his career as it was a departure from the summer ...
- $15 million
- December 18, 1985 (United States)
- Quincy Jones
Biography. Menno Meyjes was born in 1954 in Bloemendaal, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is a Dutch-born screenwriter, film director, and film producer. Meyjes moved to the United States in 1972 and studied at San Francisco Art Institute.
The film was the directorial debut of Menno Meyjes, who also wrote the film. Plot. In 1918, Max Rothman ( John Cusack ), a Munich art dealer, is a World War I veteran who lost his right arm in the Third Battle of Ypres, effectively ending his career as a painter. He returns to Germany and opens a modern art gallery.
Dec 22, 2002 · ''I was reading this book by Albert Speer,'' says Menno Meyjes, the Dutch writer and director of ''Max.'' ''He said to understand Hitler, you have to understand that he always thought of himself ...
