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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 section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[1] After graduating from high school, he studied literature, philosophy and art history in Tübingen, Zurich and Hamburg.[2] From 1979 he worked as a television reporter for regional TV programs.[2] His first feature film Dragon Chow [de] premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1987. Schütte was director of the German Film and Television Academy and is the director of the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.[3]

Jan Schütte
Born	(1957-06-26) 26 June 1957 (age 65) Mannheim, Germany
Occupation	Film director Screenwriter
Years active	1982–present

Schütte lives with his wife Christina Szápáry in Los Angeles and Berlin.[4][5]

Filmography

• Ugge Bärtle – Bildhauer (1982, documentary)
• Dragon Chow [de] (1987) — (screenplay with Thomas Strittmatter [de])
• Verloren in Amerika (1988, documentary)
• Winckelmanns Reisen [de] (1990) — (screenplay with Thomas Strittmatter [de])
• Nach Patagonien (1991, documentary) — (based on In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin)
• Bye Bye America [de] (1994) — (screenplay with Thomas Strittmatter [de])
• Eine Reise in das Innere von Wien (1995, documentary) — (based on a novel by Gerhard Roth)
• Fat World (1998) — (based on a novel by Helmut Krausser)
• The Farewell (2000) — (film about Bertolt Brecht's last summer)
• Old Love (2001, short) — (based on a short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer)
• SuperTex (2003) — (based on a novel by Leon de Winter)
• Love Comes Lately (2007) — (based on short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer)

References

External links

• Jan Schütte at IMDb

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