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Rolf von Sydow (18 June 1924 – 16 June 2019) was a German film director and author.


Life

Von Sydow worked as a film director in Germany. He married on three occasions. As an author, Sydow wrote several books and audible books.


Works by Sydow


As film director

* 1957: ''Mensch und Technik'' (short educational film about the
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) * 1958: ''Der Alltag des Soldaten'' (short educational film about the
Bundeswehr The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consists of the four armed forces: Germ ...
) * 1958: ''Der Sanitätsdienst in der Bundeswehr'' (educational film about the
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) * 1960: ' * 1962: ' * 1969: ' * 1983: ' * 1989: ' — (based on a novel by )


As television director

* 1960: ''Mein Freund Hazy'' * 1961: ''Das nasse Leben – Erinnerungen einer Brustschwimmerin'' * 1962: ''Typisch Lucy'' (TV series, 6 episodes) * 1962: ''Mit Musik kommt alles wieder'' * 1962: ''Warten auf Dodo'' — (based on a play by Eugène K. Ilyin and Gerard Willem Van Loon) * 1962: ''Drei Jungen und ein Mädchen'' — (based on a play by
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) * 1963: ''Die Nacht der Schrecken'' — (based on a short story by
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) * 1963: '' Hasenklein kann nichts dafür'' — (based on a play by Hans Mahner-Mons) * 1963: ''Der eingebildete Doktor'' — (based on a play by
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) * 1963: ''Der Liebesdienst'' — (based on the short story ''A Service of Love'' by
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) * 1964: ''Amouren'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1964: ''Frühling mit Verspätung'' — (based on the play ''And Suddenly It's Spring'' by
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) * 1964–1965: ''Die Gäste des Felix Hechinger'' (TV series, 8 episodes) * 1964–1965: ''Unsere große Schwester'' (TV series, 13 episodes) * 1964: ''Kennen Sie Heberlein?'' * 1965: '' Weekend in Paradise'' — (based on a play by
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and
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) * 1965: ''Schlußrunde'' — (remake of '' The Final Test'', 1953) * 1965: ''Olivia'' — (based on the play '' Love In Idleness'') * 1965: ''Man soll den Onkel nicht vergiften'' * 1966: ''Das Missgeschick, ein Lord zu sein'' — (based on the play '' The Chiltern Hundreds'') * 1966: ''Wie wär's, Monsieur?'' — (based on the play ''Croque-monsieur'' by Marcel Mithois) * 1966: ''Träume in der Mausefalle'' — (based on the play ''The Keep'' by Gwyn Thomas) * 1966: ''Minister gesucht'' — (based on a play by
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) * 1966: ''Die Tage und Nächte der Beebee Fenstermaker'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1966: ''Quadrille'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1966: ''Das Leben in meiner Hand'' — (based on the play ''The Life In My Hands'' by
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) * 1966: ''Der Floh im Ohr'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1966: ''Das Experiment'' * 1967: ''Also gut! Lassen wir uns scheiden!'' — (based on the play ''Divorçons'' by
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) * 1967: ''Blut floss auf Blendings Castle'' — (based on a Blandings story by
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) * 1967: ''Mein Freund Harvey'' — (based on the play '' Harvey'') * 1967: ''Unser Herr Diener'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1967: ''Ich will Mjussow sprechen'' — (based on a play by
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) * 1967: '': Der Garten'' (TV series episode) — (based on a play by Tim Aspinall) * 1967: ''Auf Sieg? Auf Platz? – Auf Liebe!'' — (based on the musical ''
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'') * 1967: ''Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen'' — (based on the short story '' Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'') * 1968: ''
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'' — (based on a play by ) * 1968: ''Heim und Herd'' — (based on ''Home and the Heart'' by
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) * 1968: ''Meinungsverschiedenheiten'' — (based on ''Difference of Opinion'' by
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and George Ross) * 1968: ''Der deutsche Meister'' — (screenplay by
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'') * 1969: ''Ein Charleston für Lady Macbeth'' — (based on a play by Frédéric Valmain) * 1969: ''Bitte recht freundlich, es wird geschossen'' — (remake of
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's '' Watch the Birdies'', 1966) * 1970: ''Bärenfang in Hinterwang'' * 1970: ' (TV miniseries) — (remake of
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's ''
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'', 1966) * 1970: ''Das Mädchen meiner Träume'' — (based on ''Girl of My Dreams'' by
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) * 1970: ''Der Minister und die Ente'' — (based on ''The Mallard Imaginaire / The Minister's Mallard'' by
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) * 1971: ''Eine unwürdige Existenz'' * 1971: ''
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: '' (TV series episode) — (screenplay by
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) * 1971: ''La Femme, le Mari et la Mort – Über die Schwierigkeiten, seinen Mann umzubringen'' — (based on the play ' by
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) * 1971: ' (TV miniseries) — (remake of
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's ''Tim Frazer: The Mellin Forrest Mystery'', 1961) * 1972–1973: ''Stadt ohne Sheriff'' (TV series, 26 episodes) * 1972: ''Monsieur Chasse – Wie man Hasen jagt'' — (based on the play ' by
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) * 1973: ''Tapetenwechsel'' — (based on the play ''The Morning After'' by Peter Blackmore) * 1973: ''
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: Kressin und die zwei Damen aus Jade'' (TV series episode) * 1973: ''
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: Das fehlende Gewicht'' (TV series episode) * 1974: ''
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: Playback oder die Show geht weiter'' (TV series episode) * 1974: ''Du Land der Liebe'' * 1975: ''Das ohnmächtige Pferd'' — (based on the play ''Le Cheval évanoui'' by
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) * 1975: ''
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: Tod eines Einbrechers'' (TV series episode) * 1975: ''6 Zimmer Sonnenseite'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1977: ''Achsensprung'' * 1977: ''Teerosen'' * 1977: ''Des Doktors Dilemma'' — (based on the play '' The Doctor's Dilemma'') * 1977: ' — (remake of
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's ''A Game of Murder'', 1966) * 1980: ''
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'' (TV series, first episode) * 1980: ' (anthology film) * 1980: ''Pygmalion'' — (based on the play '' Pygmalion'') * 1980: ''
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: Tote reisen nicht umsonst'' (TV series episode) * 1980–1981: ''Liebe ist doof'' (TV series, 9 episodes) — (screenplay by
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'') * 1981: ' — (based on '' Holiday Song'' by
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) * 1981: ''Der Schützling'' — (based on a play by
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) * 1981: ''Ein sturer Bock'' * 1981: ''Keine Angst vor Verwandten!'' * 1982: ' (co-director:
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) * 1982: ''Wohl bekomm's'' — (based on the play ''À vos souhaits'' by ) * 1982: ''Und das zum 80. Geburtstag'' — (based on a play by Lewis Grant Wallace) * 1982: ''Sonny Boys'' — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1982: ''Eine etwas sonderbare Dame'' (co-director: ) — (based on the play ''
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'') * 1983: ' — (based on a play by and ) * 1983: ''Roda Rodas rote Weste – Ein Leben in Anekdoten'' — (film about
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) * 1984: ''
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'' (TV miniseries) — (based on the novel ''
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'') * 1984: '' Abgehört'' — (based on the play ''Overheard'' by
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) * 1985: ''Der Schiedsrichter'' — (screenplay by
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) * 1985: ''Ich knüpfte manche zarte Bande'' (anthology film) * 1985: ''Glücklich geschieden'' (TV series, 6 episodes) * 1985: ''In Amt und Würden'' (anthology film) * 1985: ''
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: Tod macht erfinderisch'' (TV series episode) * 1986: ''
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: Die kleine Kanaille'' (TV series episode) * 1987: ''Laus im Pelz'' — (based on the play '' The Nerd'') * 1987: ' * 1987: ''Der Fälscher'' * 1988: ''In guten Händen'' * 1989: ''
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'' (TV series, 9 episodes) * 1990: ''Kann ich noch ein bißchen bleiben?'' * 1991: ''Altes Herz wird nochmal jung'' * 1992: ''Wiedersehen in Kanada'' * 1993: ''
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'' (TV series, 2 episodes) * 1994: ''Ein unvergessliches Wochenende in Südfrankreich'' (TV series episode) * 1995: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Karussell des Lebens'' — (based on
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's novel ''The Carousel'') * 1995: ' — (based on
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's novel ''Under Gemini'') * 1995: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Schlafender Tiger'' — (based on
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's novel ''Sleeping Tiger'') * 1995: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Wolken am Horizont'' — (based on
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's novel ''Voices in Summer'') * 1996: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Schneesturm im Frühling'' — (based on
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's novel ''Snow in April'') * 1997: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Wind der Hoffnung'' — (based on
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's story ''Toby'') * 1997: ''Heiß und kalt'' (TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by
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) * 1997: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Zwei Schwestern'' — (based on
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's story ''Spanish Ladies'') * 1998: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Der Preis der Liebe'' — (based on
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's story ''An Evening to Remember'') * 1998: ''Männer sind was Wunderbares: Nicht ganz schwindelfrei'' (TV series episode) * 1999: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Magie der Liebe'' — (based on
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's story ''The House on the Hill'') * 1999: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Möwen im Wind'' — (based on
Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was publis ...
's story ''The White Birds'') * 2000: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Ruf der Vergangenheit'' — (based on
Rosamunde Pilcher Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British novelist, best known for her sweeping novels set in Cornwall. Her books have sold over 60 million copies worldwide. Early in her career she was publis ...
's story ''Gilbert'') * 2001: ''Ein Stück vom Glück'' * 2002: ''The House of the Sisters'' — (based on a novel by
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) * 2002: ''Die Kristallprinzessin'' * 2002: ''Rosamunde Pilcher: Morgen träumen wir gemeinsam'' — (based on
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's story ''A Home for a Day II'')


As actor

* 1980: ''
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), as German Professor


as author

books * ''Angst zu atmen.'' Ullstein Verlag, 1983, . * ''Der Regisseur. Ein autobiografisches Tagebuch.'' Rotation, Berlin 2011, . * ''Rückkehr der Zugvögel. Ein schicksalhaftes Klassentreffen.'' Frieling, Berlin 2012, . * ''Ich werde mich nie verlieren. Aufzeichnungen eines Kriegsgefangenen.'' Frieling, Berlin 2013, . audible books * ''Angst zu atmen''. Gelesen von Rolf von Sydow. Dölling und Galitz, Hamburg 2004, . * ''Rolf von Sydow erzählt aus seinem Leben: „Ich wollte von Hitler zum Ehrenarier ernannt werden.“'' (Edition Zeugen einer Zeit). Paul Lazarus Stiftung, Wiesbaden 2011, .


External links

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Tagesspiegel.de: Regisseur Rolf von Sydow gestorben (german)


* ttps://www.morgenpost.de/vermischtes/article226201437/Regisseur-Rolf-von-Sydow-im-Alter-von-94-Jahren-gestorben.html Morgenpost.de: Rolf von Sydow im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben (German)
NZZ.ch: Der Film- und Theaterregisseur Rolf von Sydow ist tot, June 17, 2019


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sydow, Rolf von 1924 births 2019 deaths People from Wiesbaden Mass media people from Hesse German male writers Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg people