Egon Günther
German film director and screenwriter
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Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017)[1] was a German film director and writer.
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Born30 March 1927
Died31 August 2017 (aged 90)
Potsdam, Germany
OccupationsFilm director
Screenwriter
Screenwriter
Yearsactive1961 – 2002
Egon Günther | |
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Egon Günther in 1988 | |
| Born | 30 March 1927 |
| Died | 31 August 2017 (aged 90) Potsdam, Germany |
| Occupations | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1961 – 2002 |
His film Lotte in Weimar was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.[2] In 1985, his film Morenga was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Selected filmography
- The Dress (co-director: Konrad Petzold, 1961) — (based on The Emperor's New Clothes)
- Lots Weib (1965)
- Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam (1966, released 1990)
- Abschied (1968) — (based on a novel by Johannes R. Becher)
- Junge Frau von 1914 (1970, TV film) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
- Anlauf (1971, TV film) — (based on a story by Benito Wogatzki)
- Her Third (1971) — (based on a story by Eberhard Panitz)
- Erziehung vor Verdun (1973, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
- Die Schlüssel (1974)
- Lotte in Weimar (East Germany/West Germany, 1974) — (based on Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns)
- Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1976) — (based on The Sorrows of Young Werther)
- Ursula (Switzerland/East Germany, 1978, TV film) — (based on a novel by Gottfried Keller)
- Exil (1981, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger)
- Euch darf ich's wohl gestehen (1982, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Chancellor von Müller)
- Hanna von acht bis acht (1983, TV film)
- Morenga (1985) — (based on a novel by Uwe Timm)
- Mamas Geburtstag (1985, TV film)
- Die letzte Rolle (1986, TV film)
- Heimatmuseum (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Siegfried Lenz)
- Rosamunde (1990)
- Stein (1991)
- Lenz (1992, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz)
- Die Braut (1999) — (film about Goethe and Christiane Vulpius)
- Else – Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (2000, TV film) — (based on a novel by Angelika Schrobsdorff)
