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Roland Suso Richter

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Roland Suso Richter
Richter at a film premiere in 1997
Born
Roland Suso Richter

(1961-01-07) January 7, 1961 (age 63)
Marburg, Germany
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active1983 – present

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

Biography

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Richter was born in Marburg and lived there until 1980, when he graduated (Abitur) from the local Elisabethschule. Wanting to pursue a film career, he worked as an intern for video productions and as an actor on stage. In 1982, he appeared as an extra in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.

A year later, he and actor Frank Röth produced their first film, Kolp [de], which was released in 1985. Many TV films followed until 14 Days to Life was released in 1997, earning Richter favorable reviews.

The 1999 film After the Truth, a fictional account of an 80-year-old Josef Mengele's trial before a German court, did not receive funding from the German film foundation due to its controversial theme. It was financed privately by lead actor Götz George and others, and received a number of awards at film festivals. He also directed Der Tunnel, a made-for-television movie loosely based on true events in Berlin following the closing of the East German border in August 1961 and the subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall.[1]

In 2003, Richter gave his English-language directing debut with the psychological thriller The I Inside, starring Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Polley, which was compared to Memento[2] and The Butterfly Effect.[3]

Another of Richter's projects was the television movie Mogadischu, an account of the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977 and its subsequent storming by the GSG 9 counter-terrorism unit.

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ Kern, Laura (April 29, 2005). "In a Divided Berlin, Digging Underground for Freedom". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Anthony Nield, "The I Inside" Review, DVD Times
  3. ^ "The I Inside" Review[usurped], Current Film
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