Born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, at a very young age Haro Senft was devoted to painting, his first passion. In 1954 he created his production company, Boheme Film that would become Haro Senft Filmproduktion two years later. At the end of the 1950’s with other film directors like Edgar Reitz and Alexander Kluge, Haro Senft set himself up  as the founder of the New German Film Industry, a film industry without conventions and without commercial constraints.

When he undertook to film this rock group then unknown to the general public, Haro Senft certainly didn’t suspect that Daddy would become Supertramp. His intention was just to set the music to images, the fruit of the work of four musicians with no desire to glamorise the artists. Supertramp Portrait 1970 is the first short film of its kind.

Furthermore, loyal to his convictions set down on paper in the Oberhausen Manifesto of 1962, a manifesto according to which he denounced the commercial trappings of the film industry, Haro Senft always refused to sell this film.

While Supertramp’s career took off really quickly, the four musicians always proclaimed their gratitude to the film director. During an interview Richard Palmer, the guitarist declared: “Supertramp Portrait 1970 remains the best documentary on our group to date”.

Supertramp Portrait 1970 is considered to be the documentary that inspired Martin Scorsese who in 1976 filmed the farewell concert of the Canadian group The Band and made a poignant documentary of it two years later called The Last Waltz.