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Egon Günther is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter Allemand born on 30 march 1927 at Schneeberg, Saxony (German)

Egon Günther

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Nationality German
Birth 30 march 1927 at Schneeberg, Saxony (German)
Death 31 august 2017 (at 90 years)
Awards National Prize of East Germany

Egon Günther (born 30 March 1927 in Schneeberg, Saxony) is a former German film director and writer.

His film Lotte in Weimar was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. In 1985, his film Morenga was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

Biography

Issu d'une famille de la classe ouvrière, Ego Günther entame après la guerre des études de philosophie et de lettres à l'université de Leipzig (1948-1951). Se dirigeant vers une carrière d'enseignant, c'est par le biais de la mise en scène et de l'écriture scénaristique qu'il commence une carrière dans le cinéma. Il entre en 1958 aux studios de Babelsberg, qui appartiennent alors à la DEFA, société nationale de production est-allemande.
Portée par un goût des lettres et de la littérature germanique en particulier, la carrière d'Egon Günther est aussi marquée par les aléas du métier de cinéaste, autant en RDA qu'à l'Ouest. Spécialiste des adaptions littéraires (Thomas Mann, Goethe, Becher) réalisées dans un style intimiste, il apporte aussi un regard critique, comme dans L'Adieu (1968), qui n'est pas toujours bien reçu par les autorités. Quelques-uns de ses films subissent la censure, et Quand tu seras grand, cher Adam (1965) est même interdit (ainsi que plusieurs autres films de l'année 1965).

En dépit de ces déboires, Egon Günther renoue avec le succès au début des années 1970 avec Le Troisième (1972), puis Lotte in Weimar, qui est sélectionné à Cannes.
Malgré tout, les difficultés qu'il rencontre de nouveau dans ses réalisations suivantes, le poussent en 1978 à partir en RFA, où il travaille pour le cinéma et la télévision. Il y rencontre d'autres exigences, celles du marché, qui le frustrent autant que la censure politique. Il revient vivre près de Berlin seulement après la « chute du mur ».

Il est élu membre de l'Académie des arts de Berlin en 1997.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Egon Günther (6 films)

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Actor

Frozen Flashes, 2h46
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Alfred Müller, Leon Niemczyk, Emil Karewicz, Victor Beaumont, Renate Blume, Ewa Wiśniewska
Rating66% 3.302823.302823.302823.302823.30282
on 5 November 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives the Oslo Report, but the Military Intelligence doubts its veracity. The German research in Peenemünde goes undisturbed from the British. In spite of this, various resistance groups gather information about the site and attempt to hinder the missiles' development, taking great risks.

Director

Lotte in Weimar, 2h5
Directed by Egon Günther
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Philosophie
Actors Lilli Palmer, Martin Hellberg, Jutta Hoffmann, Katharina Thalbach, Norbert Christian, Thomas Thieme
Rating62% 3.129083.129083.129083.129083.12908
En 1816, Charlotte Kestner voyage en compagnie de sa fille, et s'arrête à Weimar, à l'hôtel l'Éléphant. Les gens des alentours reconnaissent en elle le grand amour de jeunesse de Goethe, celle dont il s'était inspiré pour écrire Werther. Prévenu par les rumeurs, le poète, qui vit toujours à Weimar, finit par lui rendre visite.
Her Third
Her Third (1972)
, 1h51
Directed by Egon Günther
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jutta Hoffmann, Barbara Dittus, Christine Schorn, Jaecki Schwarz
Rating68% 3.401563.401563.401563.401563.40156
Margit Fließer (Jutta Hoffmann) is in her mid-thirties, has two children and has been divorced twice. She works as a mathematician in a medium-sized company where she is well respected by her colleagues. Margit has a shy and repressed personality due to her past and her childhood. Margit became a nurse in a Protestant order following the early death of her mother. Realizing that this vocation is not really for her she starts her studies at a university preparatory school. She falls in love with the lecturer Bachmann (Peter Köhncke), who becomes her first husband. The marriage fails, and she enters a second marriage with a blind man (Armin Mueller-Stahl). But her new husband is a disappointment and this second marriage also fails. She now decides to find "her third" husband herself and not leaving it up to fate. She chooses Hrdlitschka (Rolf Ludwig), a colleague, but only after some efforts and with the help of her friend Lucie (Barbara Dittus) she is successful and wins Hrdlitschka as her third husband.

Scriptwriter

The Dress
The Dress (1991)
, 1h28
Directed by Egon Günther, Konrad Petzold
Genres Comedy
Actors Wolf Kaiser, Günther Simon, Harry Riebauer
Roles Writer
Rating63% 3.170733.170733.170733.170733.17073
Lotte in Weimar, 2h5
Directed by Egon Günther
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Philosophie
Actors Lilli Palmer, Martin Hellberg, Jutta Hoffmann, Katharina Thalbach, Norbert Christian, Thomas Thieme
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.129083.129083.129083.129083.12908
En 1816, Charlotte Kestner voyage en compagnie de sa fille, et s'arrête à Weimar, à l'hôtel l'Éléphant. Les gens des alentours reconnaissent en elle le grand amour de jeunesse de Goethe, celle dont il s'était inspiré pour écrire Werther. Prévenu par les rumeurs, le poète, qui vit toujours à Weimar, finit par lui rendre visite.
Her Third
Her Third (1972)
, 1h51
Directed by Egon Günther
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Armin Mueller-Stahl, Jutta Hoffmann, Barbara Dittus, Christine Schorn, Jaecki Schwarz
Rating68% 3.401563.401563.401563.401563.40156
Margit Fließer (Jutta Hoffmann) is in her mid-thirties, has two children and has been divorced twice. She works as a mathematician in a medium-sized company where she is well respected by her colleagues. Margit has a shy and repressed personality due to her past and her childhood. Margit became a nurse in a Protestant order following the early death of her mother. Realizing that this vocation is not really for her she starts her studies at a university preparatory school. She falls in love with the lecturer Bachmann (Peter Köhncke), who becomes her first husband. The marriage fails, and she enters a second marriage with a blind man (Armin Mueller-Stahl). But her new husband is a disappointment and this second marriage also fails. She now decides to find "her third" husband herself and not leaving it up to fate. She chooses Hrdlitschka (Rolf Ludwig), a colleague, but only after some efforts and with the help of her friend Lucie (Barbara Dittus) she is successful and wins Hrdlitschka as her third husband.