Percy Adlon
Percy Adlon ( born June 1, 1935 in Munich, actually Paul Rudolf Parsifal Adlon ) is a German film and television director, writer and producer.
Life
Adlon is an illegitimate son of originating from the Berlin hotelier family Adlon Susanne Adlon and opera tenor Rudolf Thal leaves. He grew up in bunting land on Lake Starnberg and studied at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich Theatre Studies, Art History and German at the same time he took singing and acting lessons and was a member of a student theater group. In 1958 he began his career as an actor, as a result, he began to be interested in the medium of radio, he worked as a spokesman and editor of literary contributions, as well as a television presenter and voice actor. He was also active as an author for the Bavarian Radio.
In 1970 he made his first short film for the Bavarian Television. In the following years developed over 150 documentaries on art and social issues, many of which for our sky. With his first one-hour portrait of Tomi Ungerer 's country living a successful period of cooperation with Benigna von Keyserlingk, who became his producer for documentaries and feature films for television began.
In 1978, Percy and Eleonore Adlon his own film production company that pelemele FILM GmbH. Their first project was the docu-drama The guardian and his poetic about the Swiss poet and writer Robert Walser, for which she received two Adolf Grimme Awards in Gold in the categories " best writer / best director " and " Best Actor ". Her film Céleste about the housekeeper and confidante of Marcel Proust, 1981 in Cannes attracted international interest. 1982 was five days last about Sophie Scholl, awarded the $ 50,000 doped Director's Award of the Bavarian Film Prize, 1985 Sugar Baby ( Co -author: Gwendolyn from Ambesser ) with Marianne Sägebrecht.
With Out of Rosenheim began in 1987 their collaboration with Dietrich von Watzdorf by Bayerischer Rundfunk. The story of Jasmine Münchgstettner and the café and gas station owner Brenda became a symbol of friendship and warmth. Marianne Sägebrecht, the Adlon was discovered in 1979, became a cult figure and the title song " Calling You " by Bob Telson was a classic. Also the film Salmon Berries brought the German actress Rosel Zech international notoriety.
Since 1989, Percy and Eleonore Adlon live in Pacific Palisades, California, USA. There they work together with her son Felix, whose first film, Eat Your Heart Out 1997 they produced their company, founded in America Leora film. Felix Adlon also played an important role in the production of their 1996 turned documentary feature film In the glamorous world of the Hotel Adlon ( The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel). 1997 Adlon began with a digital camera to work. He filmed so that, among other things ARTE a three-hour documentary about the artist Tomi Ungerer, a film with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute with pictures from the Berlin of today, 22 short films, which are based the Younger on unfamiliar pieces by Johann Strauss, as well as a 90 minute film My Munich about his past and present relationship with his hometown. In 2001 he had completed his tenth feature film Hawaiian Gardens, another Bavarian- Californian history with André Eisermann and Valeria Hernandez in the lead roles. The by the "digital revolution " possibilities opening for truly independent filmmaking fascinated Percy Adlon deeply. He believes that only films that are made without any commercial interest, the film industry can provide new suggestions. 2002 Adlon staged at the Staatsoper Berlin Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera The Elixir of Love.
Percy and Eleonore Adlon has received numerous awards and honors, including the highest award in Rio de Janeiro for Out of Rosenheim and the World Film Festival in Montreal for Salmon Berries, two César Awards, the Ernst Lubitsch Prize, one Danish and one Swedish Academy Award, the Belgian Prix humanum, prices in Venice, Chicago, Valladolid, Brussels and Tokyo as well as Bavarian and German film awards.
Adlon was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit and the Bavarian Order of Merit and is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.