Roland Suso Richter

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Roland Suso Richter (1997)

Roland Suso Richter (born January 7, 1961 in Marburg ) is a German film director and producer .

Life

Roland Suso Richter grew up in Marburg and graduated from the Elisabeth School there in 1980. He initially worked as an intern in video productions, as an actor at the theater and worked as an extra in the Fassbinder film Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss , before switching to directing .

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His first film Kolp was privately financed in 1983 by the then 24-year-old Frank Röth , who was the producer, leading actor and screenwriter for this work.

The episode on Saturdays when War is for the series Polizeiruf 110 (1994, with Angelica Domröse , Heino Ferch and Felix Eitner ) is related to the riots in Lichtenhagen in 1994 with the fictional location Ichtenheim , even if the film and literature are set in West Germany.

In 1996 the film was released for life with Kai Wiesinger and Michael Mendl for 14 days . With the film Die Bubi Scholz Story with Götz George and Benno Fürmann , Richter told the life story of the boxer Gustav "Bubi" Scholz , who was considered one of the greatest sports idols of his time.

The directorial work A Handful of Gras with Oliver Korittke describes the story of a little boy who is brought from his Kurdish homeland to Hamburg to work there as a child drug dealer.

In Der Tunnel , Harry Melchior ( Heino Ferch ), a fictional character based on the GDR swimmer Hasso Herschel, again focuses on an (ex) athlete. A group of people is undermining the Berlin Wall towards the east in order to enable life partners, friends and relatives to flee to the west.

Two years later, in 2003, judges staged again in close cooperation with his director of photography and friend Martin Langer his first international work, the US-American / British mystery thriller The I Inside  - In the Eye of Death (with Ryan Phillippe ).

With the historical TV two-part Dresden with Felicitas Woll , Benjamin Sadler and Heiner Lauterbach , Richter directed a major German production for the first time in 2006. The film is about the Allied bombing raid on the Saxon capital in February 1945, was shot in 70 days and, with a budget of around 10 million euros, was the most expensive German-language television film production to date. The film received the German Television Award in 2006 and the Jupiter Award in 2007.

In the fictionalized feature film Das Wunder von Berlin (with Kostja Ullmann , Karoline Herfurth ), which is also fictionalized in contemporary history , Richter tells of the effects of the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall on relationships within a GDR family. In this film Richter paraphrases the dramaturgical structure of Der Tunnel . In 2008, the film received nominations for the German Television Prize and the International Emmy Award in the multi-part television film category.

subjects

Several directorial works by Richter ( 14 days for life , A Handful of Grass , The Tunnel , The Miracle of Berlin ) address the confrontation of an individual or a small group of people with a rigid, empathy-free, often violent system that the protagonists cannot evade. You have to find your way in this system and you will be tested between self-loyalty and conformity. Small alliances and friendships are formed under the oppressive circumstances and strengthen positive characteristics of the protagonists. The end of the film repeatedly suggests a silver lining of hope for a change for the better.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111329/awards?ref_=tt_awd
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Roland Suso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film director
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg