Robert Kirchhoff was born in 1968 in Nitra and studied documentary production and dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. He is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and cameraman, and has had a number of films that have won awards at domestic and foreign festivals. Amongst others, he made documentaries Hey, Slovaks !, Ghost in the Machine, The Case Cervanová, etc. and was a producer and co-producer of films like Blind Loves Disease of the Third Power, in Ash.
From 2003 to 2016, he has been preparing a documentary on the Holocaust of Roma and Sinti called A “Hole in the Head”, which will have its premier in March 2017. He has interviewed many survivors of the Holocaust and recorded their fate.

– Vyhľadal Rómov a Sintov, ktorí prežili holokaust, a natočil skutočné diery v hlave. Etno safari odmietol. In: Dennik. 01.03.2017. https://dennikn.sk/681418/vyhladal-romov-a-sintov-ktori-prezili-holokaust-a-natocil-skutocne-diery-v-hlave-etno-safari-odmietol/ [link-preview url=”https://dennikn.sk/681418/vyhladal-romov-a-sintov-ktori-prezili-holokaust-a-natocil-skutocne-diery-v-hlave-etno-safari-odmietol/”]