FILM DIRECTOR

Percy Adlon

1935 - 2024

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Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon (German: [ˈpɛɐ̯si ˈaːdlɔn]; 1 June 1935 – 10 March 2024) was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement (ca. 1965–1985), and is known for his strong female characters and positive portrayals of lesbian relationships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Percy Adlon has received more than 486,286 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Percy Adlon is the 896th most popular film director (down from 634th in 2019), the 4,218th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,185th in 2019) and the 44th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Percy Adlon ranks 896 out of 2,041. Before him are Luca Guadagnino, Giuseppe Amato, Tadashi Imai, Jack Cardiff, Wayne Wang, and Wanda Jakubowska. After him are Catherine Hardwicke, Alexandre Volkoff, Jack Bender, Goran Paskaljević, Gérard Pirès, and Yves Boisset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Percy Adlon ranks 292. Before him are Bill Brack, Hrvoje Šarinić, Paul Goma, Theodor Hoffmann, Bobby Morrow, and John Patrick Foley. After him are Gary Player, Don McCullin, Barbara Harris, Rosenda Monteros, Géza Alföldy, and Alfrēds Rubiks. Among people deceased in 2024, Percy Adlon ranks 241. Before him are Olga Fikotová, Klaus Wunder, Neale Fraser, Rolf Wolfshohl, Otis Davis, and Léon Semmeling. After him are Peter Sinfield, Michel Blanc, Breyten Breytenbach, Ruth Westheimer, Elke Erb, and Joe Lieberman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Percy Adlon ranks 4,218 out of 7,253. Before him are Reiner Schöne (1942), Brian G. Marsden (1937), Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1709), Carl Joseph Begas (1794), Heinz Strehl (1938), and Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia (1976). After him are Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), Iwan Bloch (1872), Nicole (1964), Oskar von Miller (1855), Fritz Reuter (1810), and Prince Frederick of Prussia (1794).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Percy Adlon ranks 44. Before him are Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Michael Verhoeven (1938), Uwe Boll (1965), Edgar Reitz (1932), and Wolfgang Becker (1954). After him are Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Ludwig Berger (1892), Helmut Käutner (1908), Kurt Maetzig (1911), Helmut Dietl (1944), and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973).

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Filmography

Bagdad Cafe
Director
A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Nov 12th 19877.2 / 10
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Director
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's finds herself out of ways to please her consumerist tendencies… until she discovers The Internet! Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
Nov 9th 19895.7 / 10
Sugarbaby
Director
A plump Munich mortuary worker tracks down and seduces a married subway conductor.
Jun 28th 19855.5 / 10