Percy Adlon

Nacimiento : 1935-06-01, Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Historia

Director, guionista y productor de cine, nacido en Munich. Tras realizar sus primeros estudios en Baviera, acudió a la Universidad de Munich, donde cursó durante varios años Filología Alemana, además de arte y teatro, muy influido en su trayectoria artística por el ambiente musical -su padre era tenor- que vivió desde su infancia. En los primeros años de la década de los sesenta comenzó a realizar una serie de programas para la radio, especialmente sobre temas culturales y literarios, hasta que entró en el mundo de la televisión en 1970, para iniciar su carrera como documentalista, en la que se especializó en temas artísticos -sobre músicos, pintores y escritores-. La experiencia de estos trabajos le animó a constituir su propia productora -Pelemele Film-, con la que se inició en el cine de ficción con nuevos proyectos culturales (El guardián y su poeta, 1978; Don Quijote, 1979), en ambos casos con temas literarios de fondo. Su primer largometraje Celeste (1981) ofrece una visión muy particular sobre el mundo creado por Marcel Proust. Con Sugarbaby (1984) se reencontró con su musa cinematográfica, la actriz Marianne Sägebrecht, para la que construyó una historia sencilla: mujer solitaria, obesa, que busca la voz que le cautivó en sus viajes en el Metro. Para sorpresa de muchos, la película se convirtió en uno de los éxitos del momento. Inmediatamente marchó a Estados Unidos; allí dirigió, escribió y produjo Bagdad Café (1987), una historia sustentada en dos estilos de vida, dos maneras de entender las relaciones y la convivencia, el caos en un ambiente mágico, en donde una vez más el director abordó la soledad de unas personas que emiten continuas vibraciones en un paraje desolado. El mundo del consumo desmedido, de la insatisfacción permanente, sátira sobre el universo del “usar y tirar” de Rosalie va de compras (1988), toda una aventura americana. Tanto en una como en otra película, Adlon apostó por una estética brillante, colorista, llamativa y llena de contrastes. A comienzos de los años noventa buscó un paraje tanto o más inhóspito que la estepa californiana, y se fue a Alaska a rodar Salmonberries (1991), un encuentro entre dos mujeres -tema principal de buena parte de sus películas- que necesitan alimentar sus soledades.

Películas

Bagdad Cafe
Writer
Smack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda’s remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no one would choose to stay at the Bagdad Cafe but in the dust and isolation, unexpected and extraordinary friendships begin to blossom. The lost are found as individuals transform into an eclectic community bound by music, magic and some very strong coffee.
Mann vor wilder Landschaft
Director
Mahler on the Couch
Director
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Koenigs Kugel - Der deutsche Bildhauer Fritz Koenig im Trümmerfeld von Ground Zero
Director
Adlon recounts the making of the sculpture, "Kugelkaryatide" the sphere that stood in the center of Tobin Plaza between the two towers of the World Trade Center. The film follows the sculpture from its creation as the largest bronze sculpture of recent times to the aftermath, where it now stands, heavily scarred, in Battery Park.
Hawaiian Gardens
Writer
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
Hawaiian Gardens
Director
A romantic drama/detective story about big-time copyright fraud and a bigger-time crush. A complicated love triangle plays out to a dramatic climax, taking us from a strip mall somewhere in the glaring dust of Los Angeles County to a dark forest in Germany.
In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon
Director
Feature film.
Eat Your Heart Out
Producer
A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.
Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
Self
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Younger and Younger
Screenplay
The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.
Younger and Younger
Producer
The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.
Younger and Younger
Director
The eccentric owner of a Los Angeles self-storage company finds his world come crashing down when his long-suffering wife dies, only to return as a beautiful ghost.
Salmonberries
Writer
Tras la caída del muro de Berlín, dos mujeres llegan a la ciudad para encontrar su pasado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Salmonberries
Director
Tras la caída del muro de Berlín, dos mujeres llegan a la ciudad para encontrar su pasado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter
Director
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief. Some of today's most celebrated recording artists performing their interpretations of the classic songs of Cole Porter.
Babycakes
Original Film Writer
Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Producer
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 reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Screenplay
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 reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
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 reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
Bagdad Café
Producer
En medio del desierto de Mohave (EE.UU.), la alemana Jasmine y su marido tienen una fuerte discusión. Ella se baja del coche, coge la maleta y llega a un sucio bar de carretera, el Bagdad Café, regentado por una mujer negra llamada Brenda. Jasmine se instala allí y, poco a poco, entabla amistad con los clientes habituales. Entre ellos se encuentra un antiguo decorador de Hollywood, empeñado en retratar a la alemana. Mientras, ésta consigue transformar el destartalado local en un lugar muy popular, al que cada noche acude una numerosa clientela.
Bagdad Café
Screenplay
En medio del desierto de Mohave (EE.UU.), la alemana Jasmine y su marido tienen una fuerte discusión. Ella se baja del coche, coge la maleta y llega a un sucio bar de carretera, el Bagdad Café, regentado por una mujer negra llamada Brenda. Jasmine se instala allí y, poco a poco, entabla amistad con los clientes habituales. Entre ellos se encuentra un antiguo decorador de Hollywood, empeñado en retratar a la alemana. Mientras, ésta consigue transformar el destartalado local en un lugar muy popular, al que cada noche acude una numerosa clientela.
Bagdad Café
Director
En medio del desierto de Mohave (EE.UU.), la alemana Jasmine y su marido tienen una fuerte discusión. Ella se baja del coche, coge la maleta y llega a un sucio bar de carretera, el Bagdad Café, regentado por una mujer negra llamada Brenda. Jasmine se instala allí y, poco a poco, entabla amistad con los clientes habituales. Entre ellos se encuentra un antiguo decorador de Hollywood, empeñado en retratar a la alemana. Mientras, ésta consigue transformar el destartalado local en un lugar muy popular, al que cada noche acude una numerosa clientela.
Herschel and the Music of the Stars
Director
Film by Percy Adlon.
Sugarbaby
Writer
In a large city lives a lonesome, 38-year old woman. Without friends, she has indulged in food and candy too much and has become a bit overweight. In short, she is disappointed of her life. One day she sees a young and handsome subway driver and instantly falls in love with him. In a very short time, she finds out all about him and eventually makes contact with him.
Sugarbaby
Producer
In a large city lives a lonesome, 38-year old woman. Without friends, she has indulged in food and candy too much and has become a bit overweight. In short, she is disappointed of her life. One day she sees a young and handsome subway driver and instantly falls in love with him. In a very short time, she finds out all about him and eventually makes contact with him.
Sugarbaby
Director
In a large city lives a lonesome, 38-year old woman. Without friends, she has indulged in food and candy too much and has become a bit overweight. In short, she is disappointed of her life. One day she sees a young and handsome subway driver and instantly falls in love with him. In a very short time, she finds out all about him and eventually makes contact with him.
The Swing
Script
The life of 3 sisters in Munich before the First World War. Based on the book by Annette Kolb.
The Swing
Director
The life of 3 sisters in Munich before the First World War. Based on the book by Annette Kolb.
Last Five Days
Screenplay
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.
Last Five Days
Director
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.
Céleste
Writer
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.
Céleste
Director
In 1914, with men gone to war, Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later, she was at his side when he died. During this entire time, she only entered his room when he rang for her, sleeping from 9 AM to 3 PM to wait during the night while he wrote. Marcel uses her as more than a servant: she is his muse, telling stories of her childhood to stir his remembrance of things past; she's in cahoots with him as he manipulates those he wants to draw on for his writing; she listens appalled to his descriptions of the underside of Paris. Hers is a life of love and sweet devotion as he races time to finish his work before death.
The Guardian and His Poet
Writer
About the life of writer Robert Walser.
The Guardian and His Poet
Director
About the life of writer Robert Walser.
Der Tänzer Heinz Bosl
Director
A documentary about dancer Heinz Bosl who died in 1975 - aged 28.