Jan Schütte (born 26 June 1957) is a German film director and screenwriter. He has directed twelve films since 1982. His film '' The Farewell'' was screened in the

Un Certain Regard (, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films w ...

section at the

2000 Cannes Film Festival The 53rd Cannes Film Festival started on 14 May and ran until 25 May 2000. French film director, screenwriter, and producer Luc Besson was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the Danish film '' Dancer in the Dark'' by Lars von Trier. The ...

. After graduating from high school, he studied literature, philosophy and art history in Tübingen, Zurich and Hamburg. From 1979 he worked as a television reporter for regional TV programs. His first feature film ' premiered at the

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival h ...

in 1987. Schütte was director of the German Film and Television Academy and is the director of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Schütte lives with his wife Christina Szápáry in Los Angeles and Berlin.

Filmography

* '' Ugge Bärtle – Bildhauer'' (1982, documentary) * ' (1987) — (screenplay with ) * '' Verloren in Amerika'' (1988, documentary) * ' (1990) — (screenplay with ) * '' Nach Patagonien'' (1991, documentary) — (based on ''

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'' by

Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, ...

) * ' (1994) — (screenplay with ) * ''

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'' (1995, documentary) — (based on a novel by Gerhard Roth) * '' Fat World'' (1998) — (based on a novel by

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) * '' The Farewell'' (2000) — (film about Bertolt Brecht's last summer) * '' Old Love'' (2001, short) — (based on a short story by

Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer ( yi, יצחק באַשעװיס זינגער; November 11, 1903 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born American Jewish writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help ...

) * ''

SuperTex ''SuperTex'' is a 2003 English-language Dutch film directed by Jan Schütte and starring Stephen Mangan, Jan Decleir, Maureen Lipman, and Victor Löw. Cast * Stephen Mangan * Jan Decleir * Elliot Levey Elliot Levey (born 6 December 1973) i ...

'' (2003) — (based on a novel by

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) * ''

Love Comes Lately ''Love Comes Lately'' (german: Bis später, Max!) is a 2007 film written for the screen and directed by Jan Schütte. The film is based on the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Plot Elderly Jewish writer Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is an Austria ...

'' (2007) — (based on short stories by

)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schutte, Jan 1957 births Living people Mass media people from Mannheim Film people from Baden-Württemberg Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Presidents of the American Film Institute