THE MAIN ACTOR
Filmfest 2017
PT: DER HAUPTDARSTELLER
OT: DER HAUPTDARSTELLER
Federal Republic of Germany 1977
Original version
(Original: German)
Director: Reinhard Hauff
Section: Homage | Reinhard Hauff
The final take is shot. The film is done. Pepe, our 15-year-old lead, has to return to his world of mute poverty and dead-end dependency on an abusive father which the film's director briefly freed him from. PEPE'S LIFE, the story of a joyless existence, is done filming. The director has other things to worry about. Pepe's fifteen minutes of fame are over. He feels dumped and betrayed, scheming for vengeance.
Cast: Michael Schweiger, Mario Adorf, Vadim Glowna, Hans Brenner, Rolf Zacher, Doris Dörrie, Akim Ahrens
Credits
Screenplay: Christel Buschmann, Reinhard Hauff
Director of Photography: Frank Brühne
Film Editor: Stefanie Wilke
Composer: Klaus Doldinger
Production Designer: Winfried Hennig
Costume Design: Monika Altmann
Sound: Gerhard Birkholz
Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf
Production Company: Bioskop-Film GmbH
Co-Producer: Wolf-Dietrich Brücker
Co-Production Company: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
Distributor: STUDIOCANAL GmbH
Director: Reinhard Hauff
biography
Reinhard Hauff was born 1939 as son of a magistrate in Marburg, Germany. He moved to Munich to study literature and sociology, dropping out to work for television at Munich's Bavaria Studios. The top German entertainment director of the time, Michael Pfleghar, became his mentor starting 1964. But Hauff wanted to make movies: In 1968, he started to make documentaries, TV movies and theatrical films. In 1974, he co-founded Bioskop Film together with Volker Schlöndorff and Eberhard Junkersdorf. STAMMHEIM – THE BAADER-MEINHOF GANG ON TRIAL won the Golden Bear at Berlin 1986. In 1993, he started to retire from active filmmaking and became head of dffb film school in Berlin, where he shared his expertise with young filmmakers until 2005. Reinhard Hauff lives in Munich with his wife.
