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Film director, Screenwriter
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Male
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11 January 1941(Hainichen, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany)
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Biography
Introduction
Rainer Simon (born 11 January 1941) is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1964 and 2000. His 1985 film The Woman and the Stranger won the Golden Bear award at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1980 film Jadup and Boel entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival in 1989.
Selected filmography
- Jadup and Boel (1980)
- The Woman and the Stranger (1985)
- Der Fall Ö. (1991)
- The Airship (1993 film) East German film directed by Rainer Simon after Das Luftschiff novel by Fritz Rudolf Fries