Percy Adlon Video | Clips from Films Directed and Interviews

Percy Adlon (born 1 June 1935, Munich) is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim. Percy Adlon grew up in Ammerland/Starnberger See, in the Bavarian countryside. He studied art and theater history, and German literature at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University, took acting and singing classes, and was a member of the student theater group. He started his professional career as an actor, became interested in radio work, was a narrator and editor of literature series and a presenter and voice-over... MORE

Percy Adlon (born 1 June 1935, Munich) is a German film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film Bagdad Café aka Out of Rosenheim. Percy Adlon grew up in Ammerland/Starnberger See, in the Bavarian countryside. He studied art and theater history, and German literature at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University, took acting and singing classes, and was a member of the student theater group. He started his professional career as an actor, became interested in radio work, was a narrator and editor of literature series and a presenter and voice-over actor in television for 10 years. In 1970 he made his first short film for Bavarian Television, followed by more than 150 documentary films about art and the human condition. His first one-hour portrait Tomi Ungerer's Landleben started a very successful co-operation with Benigna von Keyserlingk who became the Adlon's television producer of documentaries and feature films. Percy and Eleonore Adlon formed their film production company, pelemele FILM GmbH, in 1978. Their first project was the docu-drama The Guardian and his Poet about the Swiss novelist and poet Robert Walser for which they won 2 LESS