Rudolf Thome

Rudolf Thome ( born November 14, 1939 in Wallau ( Lahn), Hesse ) is a German film director. The film magazine Cahiers du cinéma described him in 1980 as the main unknown German director.

Life

Thome is the son of a bookseller. He studied German literature, philosophy and history at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. First short films in Munich from 1965, the first feature film in 1968. Thome also worked as a film critic since 1962, especially for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, film criticism, and later for the Berlin Tagesspiegel. In 1965 he founded together with Klaus Lemke and Max Zihlmann film production company Alexandra movie. In the same year he was also the manager of the club Munich Film Critics. 1965 were Rudolf Thome, Klaus Lemke, Max Zihlmann, Peter Nestler and Jean -Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet an informal group in Munich as a signatory of a " Second Oberhausen Manifesto ," which was not published and therefore served primarily to their self- to formulate. The occasion was, among others, the exclusion of their films through the "Oberhausen " and their " nepotism ".

With his film The Red Sun (1970 ) he met the lifestyle of the generation of '68. Since his longtime screenwriter Max Zihlmann not want to move with Thome of Schwabing to West Berlin in 1973, Thome developed from this predicament the stylistic device of dialogic improvisation, which he has remained faithful ever since. Temporarily, he worked in the 1970s as a loan officer for a building society and for the program Kino Arsenal. In 1977 he founded his current production company moanafilm who frequently worked with the German production company Degeto. Since 1999, Thome writes his scripts on the Internet, ie he presents his notes on the Internet, for every time he sits down a period of 28 days. In his feature film Venus in the network or Venus.de (2000) he made this public way of working to a movie plot.

Thome is one of the few German directors of his generation, who regularly rotate movies, albeit very on the edge of the film business. His favorite actors include Hanns Hisser, Adriana Altaras and Hannelore Elsner. Thome has applied since 1980 as an unobtrusive portraitist of love relationships and relationship problems of the educated middle class, the play mainly on location in and around Berlin. Women take in his films, a sovereign and self-confident roles.

Thome was married three times, has three sons and a daughter, who also works as a director. For this purpose, he added that there are "well in my life seven important women " were. He divides his time between Berlin- Kreuzberg and on an old farm in southern Brandenburg Niendorf ( Ihlow ).

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • International Film Festival Berlin 1975: FIPRESCI Prize recommendation of the International Forum of New Cinema for diary
  • Guild of German Art House Cinemas 1982: Guild Film Award in Silver in the German film for Berlin Chamissoplatz
  • Montréal World Film Festival 1987: FIPRESCI Prize for The philosopher
  • Hessian Film Award 2007: Award for The Visible and the Invisible
696632
de