René Perraudin

René Perraudin (born December 8, 1947 in Paris ) is a German-French film director , film producer , screenwriter , cameraman and film editor . He lives in Berlin .

Live and act

René Perraudin is the son of the French painter Wilfrid Perraudin and the set designer Hildegard Perraudin, b. Wiehl. He first grew up in Paris, and the family has lived in Freiburg / Breisgau since 1952. After graduating from high school, he studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart .

In 1970 René Perraudin moved to Berlin to study film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) . In addition to his directorial training, he focused on camera work (lecturer: Michael Ballhaus ) and special effects (lecturer: Helmut Herbst ). In addition to working on his own study films, he worked as a cameraman on numerous graduation films of his fellow students. He also began to work outside the DFFB during his studies, first as a camera assistant for television films, then as a cameraman, see above. z. B. for the short film My Brother Willi by Ulrich Schamoni . He already started while studying together with a fellow student, a production company and produced on behalf of the NDR , the German parts of the acquired American Sesame Street that just as Sesame Street was created. His graduation film The Small World premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and was then invited by the Museum of Modern Art to the Berlin Now film show in New York because of its extraordinary visual design .

After completing his studies, he worked as a freelance cameraman in several television films and from 1976 to 1979 he was a camera lecturer at the DFFB. He then made a number of short films as a director and producer, which won numerous awards, including the Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 1979 and two federal film awards (1981 and 1986).

In 1988 his feature film, For example Otto Spalt , was released after it won the audience award at the Max Ophüls Festival . The main actor Otto Sander was seen in six different roles. The supporting roles were also prominently cast, for example with Katharina Thalbach , Udo Samel , Alfred Edel , Irm Hermann , Rolf Zacher , Peter Fitz , Romy Haag and many others. There is brisk demand via streaming portals. With funds from the FFA to secure the German film heritage , the 35mm negative was digitized and restored in 2017 and has since been available as a DCP .

Perraudin was the scriptwriter of 30 films and series, he directed the camera in over 70 cinema and TV films, almost 40 films were made under his direction, he was not only a producer of his own films, but also a commissioned producer for TV films and series by other directors, and he designed a good 50 films as editor.

Important camera work was z. For example, the historical film Marie Ward with Hannelore Elsner as the founder of the order and Mario Adorf as Pope Urban VIII (Hermes Film / Warner Brothers) and the ZDF three-part series Tödliche Wahl with Jürgen Prochnow in the leading role (Production Gulya Trebitsch / Studio Hamburg ).

Particularly noteworthy among the editing work are: Voices from the Dark , the film adaptation of Walter Kempowski's Das Echolot for ZDF (director: Peter Leippe, 1st prize at LiteraVision 2005), the three-hour documentary Memories of Rain about the struggle for freedom during South African apartheid , Directed by Gisela Albrecht and Angela Mai, (world premiere: Berlinale 2004, Eine-Welt-Preis NRW) and the feature film Komitas (directed by Don Askarian ).

Work as a contract producer was z. B. The new federal states , two seasons with five documentaries each for InterNationes and the production of 60 films and video installations for the exhibition in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Unity and Law and Freedom for the 50th anniversary of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Perraudin-Filmproduktion was also active in the field of film technology developments and services. B. with the provision of cameras from the brands Arriflex , Eclair and Aaton as well as lighting, sound and editing technology. With the company AvidCut, Perraudin founded one of the first digital editing studios in Germany. In cooperation with Geyer-Werken Berlin , AvidCut developed a first method for transferring the digital offline cutting data for the negative cut of the 35 and 16 mm film material as well as for synchronizing digital Avid cutting systems with analog Steenbeck cutting tables.

For a number of years his main focus has been on editing French films for German-language exploitation as well as producing films and multimedia presentations for public institutions and museums, including the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . As a mentor, he also oversees projects for international film grant recipients that are being realized in Germany.

René Perraudin is a member of the European Film Academy , the German Film Academy , the Nipkow Program, the Friends and Sponsors of the DFFB and the sponsors of the Museum for Film and Television .

Filmography (selection)

• 1969: The luck of the clueless (production, script, director, camera)
• 1970: José se promène (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1971: Soon (script, director, camera)
• 1972: My brother Willi (camera)
• 1972: Sesame Street (production, script, co-director, camera)
• 1975: Contribution to the natural history of man (camera, editing)
• 1975: Die kleine Welt (book, director, camera)
• 1975: Here are the lions (camera)
• 1975: Werner Herzog - What I am are my films (camera)
• 1976: The lawn of your dreams (camera)
• 1977: Cash (camera)
• 1978: From the similarity to humans (camera)
• 1979: Phantom (production, script, co-director, camera)
• 1979: Something new in the west (camera)
• 1979: The Other Creation (camera)
• 1979: Joseph Weizenbaum: The human face of the future (camera)
• 1980: Backwards (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1980: Black Box (production, script, co-director, camera)
• 1981: Talent test (co-camera)
• 1981: A case for Otto Spalt (production, script, co-director, camera)
• 1981: The unequal chance (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1982: Emilia Galotti in Gotha (camera)
• 1982: The Thirty One (production, script, co-director, camera)
• 1983: San Masseo (camera)
• 1983: For you (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1983: Memory: Curt Bois, Bernhard Minetti, Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz (co-camera)
• 1983: Richard Angst - cameraman (camera)
• 1984: The murder with the scissors (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1984: painted with the dream (camera)
• 1984: Marie Ward - Between Gallows and Glory (camera)
• 1985: Demons of the Cities (camera)
• 1986: Don't look around! (Camera)
• 1986: Close Up (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1986: Little glitch - don't panic, 8-part TV series (production)
• 1986: Robert Wilson - Civil Wars (camera)
• 1987: Silent days in Sommieres (camera)
• 1988: Tinguelli - Dreaming Machines (camera)
• 1988: The Invasion of the Bottles (production, camera, editing)
• 1988: For example Otto Spalt (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1988: Komitas (editor)
• 1989: 10 minutes Berlin (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1990: Forward (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1990: The five new federal states, 10-part series (production, script, co-director, camera)
• 1990: Full speed ahead (production, camera)
• 1990: The Difficulty Being Cocteau (Cinematography)
• 1991: Ökoropa, three-part TV series (production, camera)
• 1991: Marundes Country Life (camera)
• 1992: Tobi and the Railway (production, script, direction)
• 1992: Rabbits in the airport (production, script, direction, camera)
• 1992: I'm my own wife (co-production)
• 1993: Dolores, Colorado (camera, editing, post-production)
• 1994: The Rose of Jericho (camera)
• 1994: The Stranger (camera)
• 1995: Deadly Choice, three-part TV series (camera)
• 1996: dreams are stronger (editing, post-production)
• 1996: Banished to Paradise (editing, post-production)
• 1996: See Pabst again (co-production, camera, editing)
• 1997: Reichsstrasse No. 1 (editing, post-production)
• 1998: A German shipwreck (editing, post-production)
• 1998: Heckers Weg (editing, post-production)
• 1998: The dream of freedom (editing, post-production)
• 1998: Otto Preminger (co-production, camera, editing)
• 1999: The Man and the Bomb (camera, editing, post-production)
• 1999: Not yesterday - not tomorrow (camera, editing, post-production)
• 1999: 2000 years of Christianity, 26-part TV short film series (co-director, camera, editing, post-production)
• 1999: Unity and Law and Freedom, 60 video installations in the Martin-Gropius-Bau (production)
• 2000: Seven Hills, interactive video installation in the Martin-Gropius-Bau (production)
• 2000: Weekend at Wannsee (production, camera, editing)
• 2001: Dooney's Fiddler (camera, editor, post-production)
• 2001: The Secret of the Broken Star (editing, post-production)
• 2001: The return of the great masters (editing, post-production)
• 2001: An eccentric in the Orient (production, camera, editing)
• 2002: The restoration of Metropolis (camera, editing, post-production)
• 2002: Art in the Reichstag building (editing, post-production)
• 2003: The new Museum Island - myth, plan, vision (editing, post-production)
• 2004: Memories of Rain (editing, post-production)
• 2004: Voices from the Dark (editing, post-production)
• 2004: Harry Piel, the unleashed (production, camera, editing)
• 2005: Der Berg, sound installation in the Palace of the Republic (audio design, post production)
• 2005: Uli Richter - Haute Couture (production, direction, editing)
• 2006: The handover (production, direction, camera, editing)
• 2007: A Berlin Fashion Story (production, direction)
• 2008: Pilgrimage in Japanese (editing, post-production)
• 2008: All Together Now (editing, post-production)
• 2009: Futuris - International Science Magazine, 72 episodes of 30 minutes each (post-production)
• 2010: The files are open (editing, post-production)
• 2012: Science Special (Post Production)
• 2012: Summer Rain (mentoring, editing, post-production)
• 2013: The Berlin Wall, video installation (editing, post-production)
• 2014: 1961/1989 (editing, post-production)
• 2014: Starting the Revolution (editing, post-production)
• 2016: Uli Richter Revisited (Production, Director)
• 2017: Be Natural: The Untold Story Of Alice Guy-Blaché (Production / Direction for German Unit)
• 2017: For example Otto Spalt (digitization of the 35 mm negative, restoration)

Awards

• 1979: Berlin International Film Festival: Silver Bear, Jury Prize, for Phantom (together with Uwe Schrader).
• 1980: Main prize of the European Community, awarded by the Center National de la Cinématographie, for Phantom (together with Uwe Schrader).
• 1981: Federal Film Prize, film tape in silver, for backwards .
• 1984: International prize awards from the Instituto Luce Cinecittà for backwards .
• 1986: Federal Film Prize, film tape in silver, for Close Up .
• 1986: International awards from the Center National de la Cinématographie for Close Up .
• 1988: Max Ophüls Audience Award for For example Otto Spalt .
• 1990: Rose von Montreux, German competition entry for Vorwärts (as a representative of ARD).
• 1991: International prize awards from the Instituto Luce Cinecittà for Close Up .
• 1992: International prize awards from the Instituto Luce Cinecittà for 10 minutes in Berlin .
• 1993: German Business Film Prize for Tobi and the Railway (client: Deutsche Bundesbahn).
• 6 × FBW rating: valuable.
• 7 × FBW rating: Particularly valuable.

Publications

• Trau-Schau-Wem, conventional film editing - virtual film editing (in the series Close Up - Die Deutsche Bibliothek) UVK Medien Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Konstanz, 1997, ISBN 3-89669-223-2
• Das Edelbuch - Toi, toi, great! Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-935843-36-4
• Photographs in various books: Henschel Verlag, Deutscher Kunstverlag u. a.

Web links

• René Perraudin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• René Perraudin at Filmportal.de
• René Perraudin on the website of the DFFB graduates dffb-alumni.de
• Films by René Perraudin shown at the Berlinale
• Perraudin film production website