# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leonard-retel-helmrich
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:25:45.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leonard-retel-helmrich"
name: "Leonard Retel Helmrich"
slug: "leonard-retel-helmrich"
description: "Leonard Retel Helmrich was a Dutch cinematographer and film director. Born in Tilburg, he moved to Amsterdam in 1982. He was a two-time International Documentary winner at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). On June 5, 2018, he was awarded with the title Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion by the Dutch King Willem-Alexander. Helmrich was known for his work with the \"single shot cinema\" filming method."
tagline: "Dutch film director (1959–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich3.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Netherlands"
  isoCode: "NL"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1959-08-16"
deathDate: "2023-07-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.93
  momentum:             17.09302325581395
  historical:           6.338949333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0720503/"
    handle:    "nm0720503"
sources:
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    title: "لیونارڈ ریٹل ہیلمرک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ليونارد ريتيل هيلمريتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich"
    title: "Leonard Retel Helmrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich"
    title: "Leonard Retel Helmrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich"
    title: "Leonard Retel Helmrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich"
    title: "Leonard Retel Helmrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Retel_Helmrich"
    title: "Leonard Retel Helmrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q782333"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump