Peter Przygodda (26 October 1941 – 2 October 2011
) was a German filmmaker, best known for editing
Wim Wenders' films. Przygodda died of
cancer
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, aged 69, in 2011.
Filmography
Director
* 1969: ''Der Besuch auf dem Lande'' (short)
* 1972: ''Can''
* 1979: ''… als Diesel geboren''
* 1981–1985: ''Alle Geister kreisen… Todos os espiritos circulam''
Editor
* 1969: '
* 1970: ''
Summer in the City''
* 1970: '
* 1971: ''Cream – Schwabing-Report''
* 1971: ''Liebe so schön wie Liebe''
* 1972: ''
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty''
* 1972: ''
Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King''
* 1973: ''
The Scarlet Letter
''The Scarlet Letter: A Romance'' is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, ...
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* 1973: ''Sylvie''
* 1974: ''
Alice in the Cities
''Alice in the Cities'' (german: Alice in den Städten) is a 1974 German road movie directed by Wim Wenders. It is the first part of Wenders' "Road Movie trilogy", which also includes '' The Wrong Move'' (1975) and '' Kings of the Road'' (1976). ...
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* 1974: ''Paul – Geschichte eines Ausgestoßenen''
* 1974: ''Ein bißchen Liebe''
* 1975: ''
The Wrong Move''
* 1975: ''
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
''The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: how violence develops and where it can lead'' (original German title: , ) is a 1974 novel by Heinrich Böll.
The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic ove ...
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* 1975: ''Teenager-Liebe''
* 1976: ''
The Sternstein Manor
''The Sternstein Manor'' (german: Sternsteinhof) is a 1976 West German drama film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Cast
* as Leni Zinshofer
* Tilo Prückner as Nepomuk Kleebi ...
''
* 1976: ''
Kings of the Road''
* 1977: ''
The American Friend''
* 1977: ''
The Left-Handed Woman''
* 1978: ''
The Glass Cell''
* 1978: ''
Knife in the Head
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* 1978: ''
The Man in the Rushes
''The Man in the Rushes'' (German: ''Der Mann im Schilf'') is a 1978 West German thriller film directed by Manfred Purzer and starring Jean Sorel, Erika Pluhar and Nathalie Delon.Bock & Bergfelder p.529
The film's sets were designed by the art dir ...
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* 1980: ''
Lightning Over Water
''Lightning Over Water'', also known as ''Nick's Film'', is a 1980 West German- Swedish documentary- drama film written, directed by and starring Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. It centers on the last days of Ray's own life, who was already known ...
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* 1980: '
* 1982: ''
The State of Things''
* 1982: ''
The Magic Mountain
''The Magic Mountain'' (german: Der Zauberberg, links=no, ) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.
Mann s ...
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* 1982: '
* 1983: '
* 1984: ''Fluchtpunkt Berlin''
* 1984: ''
Paris, Texas
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History
Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River ...
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* 1986: ''Miko: From the Gutter to the Stars''
* 1987: ''
Wings of Desire
''Wings of Desire'' (, ; ) is a 1987 romantic fantasy film written by Wim Wenders, Peter Handke and Richard Reitinger, and directed by Wenders. The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and listen to the thoughts of its ...
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* 1987: ''
Deadline
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* Deadline (DC Comics), a fictional villain
* ''Deadline'' (magazine), a British ...
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* 1988: '
* 1989: ''
Last Exit to Brooklyn
''Last Exit to Brooklyn'' is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose.
Critics and fellow writers praised ...
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* 1991: ''
Until the End of the World
''Until the End of the World'' (german: Bis ans Ende der Welt; french: Jusqu'au bout du monde) is a 1991 science fiction adventure drama film directed by German filmmaker Wim Wenders. Set at the turn of the millennium in the shadow of a world ...
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* 1992: ''
The Absence''
* 1993: ''
Faraway, So Close!
''Faraway, So Close!'' (german: In weiter Ferne, so nah!) is a 1993 German fantasy film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. It is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film '' Wings of Desire''. Actors ...
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* 1994: ''
Lisbon Story''
* 1995: ''
Transatlantis''
* 1995: ''
Beyond the Clouds''
* 1995: ''
Deathmaker
''Deathmaker'' () is a 1995 German film directed by Romuald Karmakar and starring Götz George, Jürgen Hentsch and Pierre Franckh. The film is based on the transcripts of the interrogation of the notorious serial killer Fritz Haarmann.
The film ...
''
* 1995: ''
A Trick of Light
''A Trick of Light'' (German: ''Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky'') is a 1995 German biographical film directed by Wim Wenders. The film was made with the students of the University of Television and Film Munich and is a combination of docudrama, fiction ...
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* 1996: ''
The Ogre''
* 1997: ''
The End of Violence
''The End of Violence'' is a 1997 drama film by the German director Wim Wenders. The film's cast includes Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, and Loren Dean, among others. It also features a soundtrack marked w ...
''
* 1998: ''
Palmetto''
* 1998: ''Kopfleuchten''
* 2000: '
* 2000: ''
The Legend of Rita''
* 2002: ''
Tattoo
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''
* 2005: ''
Schneeland
''Schneeland'' (German: "Snowland") is a 2005 film written and directed by German filmmaker Hans W. Geissendörfer. Based on the novel ''Hohaj'' by Elisabeth Rynell, it depicts the devastation felt by Elizabeth (Maria Schrader), a woman who had ...
''
* 2005: ''
Don't Come Knocking
''Don't Come Knocking'' is a 2005 American Western film directed by German director Wim Wenders and written by Wenders and actor/playwright Sam Shepard. The two had previously collaborated on the film ''Paris, Texas'' (1984). It was entered int ...
''
* 2006: ''
Strike
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People
* Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
*Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
*Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected ...
''
* 2007: ''
Eight Miles High
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* 2008: ''
Palermo Shooting
''Palermo Shooting'' is a 2008 film written and directed by German director Wim Wenders, and starring Campino, Dennis Hopper, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Lou Reed as himself, and an uncredited Milla Jovovich, also playing herself. It was screened at the ...
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* 2009: ''Mazel Tov''
Awards
* 1975:
Filmband in Gold (film editing): ''Falsche Bewegung''
* 1978: Filmband in Gold (film editing): ''Der amerikanische Freund'', ''Die linkshändige Frau'' und ''Die gläserne Zelle''
* 2005: Nominated for
European Film Award
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" Don't Come Knocking"
* 2009: Nominated for
Deutscher Filmpreis: ''Palermo Shooting''
* 2010: Star on
Boulevard der Stars in Berlin
Literature
*Hans-Michael Bock: ''Peter Przygodda – Cutter, Regisseur.'' Essay von Karlheinz Oplustil in ''CineGraph – Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film'', pg. 12 (September 1988)
*Kay Weniger: ''Das große Personenlexikon des Films.'' Sechster Band. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2001;
References
External links
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Film people from Berlin
Deaths from cancer in Germany
1941 births
2011 deaths