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German film director (1942?2015)
Wolf Gremm
(26 February 1942 ? 14 July 2015) was a German film director and screenwriter.
Gremm was born in
Freiburg im Breisgau
in 1942. In the 1960s, he studied German literature, psychology, sociology and theater. After graduation, he studied film direction at the
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
and directed his first feature film
Ich dachte, ich war tot
in 1973.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, he produced several feature films. His greatest success was the 1980 film
Fabian
based on a novel by German author
Erich Kastner
. This film was chosen as West Germany's
official submission
to the
53rd Academy Awards
for
Best Foreign Language Film
, but was not nominated.
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He was a close friend of the German film director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
, who also starred in Gremm's 1982 film
Kamikaze 1989
.
Personal life
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Gremm was married to the film producer
Regina Ziegler
, who began her career as the producer of Gremm's first feature film
Ich dachte, ich war tot
. He died at the age of 73 in Berlin on 14 July 2015 from cancer.
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Selected filmography
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- Ich dachte, ich ware tot
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de
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(1973)
- I'd Like to Have My Troubles
(1975)
- Tatort
: Tod im U-Bahnschacht
(1975, TV)
- The Brothers
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de
]
(1977, based on a short story by Septimus Dale)
- Death or Freedom
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de
]
(1977, loosely based on the play
The Robbers
)
- Frontiers of Darkness
(1979, TV film, based on a novel by
Dieter Wellershoff
[
de
]
)
- Fabian
(1980, based on a novel by
Erich Kastner
)
- No Terraced House for Robin Hood
[
de
]
(1981, based on a novel by
Horst Bosetzky
[
de
]
)
- After Midnight
[
de
]
(1981, based on the novel
After Midnight
)
- Kamikaze 1989
(1982, based on a novel by
Per Wahloo
)
- Behind The Door
(1983, TV film, based on a novel by
Henry Slesar
)
- Siggi, the Street Cleaner
[
de
]
(1984)
- Fatal Love
(1986, TV film, based on a novel by
Celia Fremlin
)
- Winterbeach
(1988, TV film, based on a short story by
Kate Wilhelm
)
- Appointment with Yesterday
(1988, TV film, based on a novel by
Celia Fremlin
)
- The Sparrow Murderer
(1989, TV film, based on a novel by Jurgen Breest)
- I Want to Live
(1990, TV film, based on a short story by
Kate Wilhelm
)
- Pray for Ricki Forster
(1991, TV film)
- Die Spur fuhrt ins Verderben
(1993, TV film, based on a novel by
Julian Symons
)
- Cliffs of the Death
(1993, TV film, based on a novel by
Celia Fremlin
)
- Californian Quartet
(1995, TV miniseries, based on a novel by Dieter Zimmer)
- Inka Connection
(1995, TV film, based on a novel by Peter Breitwieser)
- The Hours before Dawn
(1997, TV film, based on a novel by
Celia Fremlin
)
- Only a Dead Man Is a Good Man
(1999, TV film, based on a novel by
Gaby Hauptmann
)
- Angels' Sin
(1999, TV film, based on a novel by
Charlotte Link
)
- A Depraved Couple
(2000, TV film, based on a novel by Andreas Anatol)
- Nancy & Frank ? A Manhattan Love Story
(2002, based on a novel by
Hans Werner Kettenbach
)
- Deadly Rendezvous
(2002, TV film, based on a novel by Christoph Gottwald)
- One Lover Is Not Enough
(2002, TV film, based on a novel by
Gaby Hauptmann
)
- Loving and Killing
(2006, TV film, based on a novel by Barbara Wilde)
- The Lake of Dreams
(2006, TV film, based on the novel
On Mystic Lake
by
Kristin Hannah
)
- Island of Light
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]
(2008, TV film, based on the novel
Summer Island
by
Kristin Hannah
)
- All the Longing in the World
[
de
]
(2009, TV film)
- Who Dares to Love
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de
]
(2010, TV film, based on the novel
Between Sisters
by
Kristin Hannah
)
- Im Fluss des Lebens
(2011, TV film, based on a novel by
Ruth Maria Kubitschek
)
- Summer Light
(2011, TV film, based on the novel
Facing the Light
by
Adele Geras
)
- Das Madchen aus dem Regenwald
(2011, TV film, based on a novel by
Kristin Hannah
)
- Wolf at the Door
(2015) (video diary / documentary)
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