Roland Suso Richter | |
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 Richter at a film premiere in 1997 | |
| Born | Roland Suso Richter January 7, 1961 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1983 – present |
Roland Suso Richter (born January 7, 1961, in Marburg) is a German film director and producer.
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 , 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.
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