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Percy Adlon
Director 1935 - 2024

Percy Adlon

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Cafe. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement, and is known for his strong female characters and surrealist tendencies.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

6 titles
Younger and Younger

Younger and Younger

Percy Adlon 1993 1h 39m

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

Salmonberries

Percy Adlon 1991 1h 35m

A young orphaned woman, named Kotzebue, is trying to find out who her parents are in the icy landscapes of Alaska. Kotzebue (K.d. Lang) is helped by a east-german librarian (Rosel Zech), whose husband was killed while fleeing from the GDR. Although both women could not be more different from each other, a fragile relationship forms.

Rosalie Goes Shopping

Rosalie Goes Shopping

Percy Adlon 1989 1h 34m

A kind but thieving shopaholic tries to turn her mistakes around, but does so by becoming a skilled computer hacker, something that could only get her into more trouble despite her goal to impress her beloved family.

Out of Rosenheim

Out of Rosenheim

Percy Adlon 1987 1h 48m 7.7

A surreal comedy depicting a diverse cast of characters and the changes they undergo as the German tourist Jasmin interacts with each of them at a remote truck stop in the middle of the Mojave desert.

Zuckerbaby

Zuckerbaby

Percy Adlon 1985 1h 26m 7.5

An asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately, despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.

Fünf letzte Tage

Fünf letzte Tage

Percy Adlon 1982 1h 52m

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.

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