Birthday:
04-11-1947
(77 years)
Birthplace:
Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany
Biography
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Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany) is a German film director.
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Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg am Rhein, Germany) is a German film director.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Uli Edel , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
Act like Self
event1996
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Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion
Act like Self
event2009
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Documentary about the German director Uli Edel
Mythos Metropolis
Act like Self
event2010
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Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Act like Self
event2013
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Documentary about Hollywood.
The Making of 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'
event2006
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A wonderful making of featurette that focuses on the controversial novel that inspired the film Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) as well the production history of the film. German director Uli Edel and members of his technical crew also discuss some of the obstacles that had to be overcome while shooting on location in Brooklyn. The real characters that are portrayed in the film are also interviewed.
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
Act like Self - Director
event1997
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Schmidt follows the 27 miles of the “street of life” to Pacific Palisades, where the boulevard ends at the ocean. While interviews with celebrities from show and film document the well-known glamorous side of Sunset Boulevard, Schmidt also witnesses the transformation in the wake of a gigantic investment boom
Through the Night with...
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 8
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Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany.
The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit.
Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.
Body of Evidence
Director (2 ep.)
event1993 star_border 5
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When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.
Ring of the Nibelungs
Director (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.2
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In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Screenplay (2 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7
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'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
The Little Vampire
Director (2 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6.9
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Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony's access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they've always wanted.
Times Change You
Director (2 ep.)
event2010 star_border 4.3
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After the bestselling book comes the film about Germany's most successful rapper: authentic, provocative and radical. Despite all his successes, Bushido has to face the demons of his past again and again.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Director (2 ep.)
event1989 star_border 6.4
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A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Christiane F.
Director (2 ep.)
event1981 star_border 7.3
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This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the 'Sound', a new disco with most modern equipment. Although she's legally too young, she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef, who's in a clique where everybody's on drugs. Step by step she gets drawn deeper into the scene.
Confessions of a Sorority Girl
Director (2 ep.)
event1995 star_border 5.5
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A spoiled little rich girl arrives at Sorority High with studying the last thing on her mind. Spreading malicious rumours and splitting people up are just some of the things she finds amusing. Her behaviour not surprisingly though, starts to alienate her from her fellow classmates.
Rasputin
Director (2 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.5
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Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russian history.
Tyson
Director (2 ep.)
event1995 star_border 6.1
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The story of Mike Tyson. From his early days as a 12 year old amateur with a powerful punch, to the undisputed title of "Heavyweight Champion of the World", and ultimately to his conviction for rape. The story of his turbulent life moves quickly, never focusing for long on anything in particular.
New Year's Eve
Editor (2 ep.)
event1978
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Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some teaching during the late 1970s at the film school in Munich, where he made three short films with his students.
King of Texas
Director (2 ep.)
event2002 star_border 5.3
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In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.
Wallenberg
Director (2 ep.)
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Evil Never Dies
Director (2 ep.)
event2003 star_border 5.2
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After his wife is brutally murdered, a policeman transfers to patrol duty at a college, only to discover that the now-executed murderder may be brought back to life as part of a professor's experiment.
Eine Art von Zorn
Director (2 ep.)
event1984
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An Iraqi secret service agent is murdered. The only witness is a woman, but she disappeared without a trace. The journalist Piet Maas actually tracks down Lucia, the murdered man's lover, and does a sensational interview with her. Piet should stick to the matter. He has the feeling that Lucia is hiding the important thing. His suspicions are confirmed. She is in possession of the murdered man's valuable records, which she wants to sell. Piet offers himself to Lucia as a broker...
Purgatory
Director (2 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.2
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An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.
Pay the Ghost
Director (2 ep.)
event2015 star_border 5.4
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One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son—and, in doing so, he unearths a legend that refuses to remain buried in the past.
Unter Männern
Editor (2 ep.)
event1980
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Short film directed by Tomy Wigand
Perahim - die zweite Chance
Writer (2 ep.)
event1974
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After eleven years of solitary confinement, Perahim, convicted of murdering a police officer, is released early from prison after exceptionally good behavior. He has a son that he wants to take care of.
Unterm Birnbaum
Director (2 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.6
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After the death of their child, the Hradschek couple consoled themselves with gambling and shopping orgies. After the creditor increases the pressure on them, Ursel and Abel decide to kill him.
The Master Butcher
Director (2 ep.)
event2019 star_border 8
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After his return from World War I, there is no more work for Fidelis in his parents' butcher shop in Swabia, Germany. To make a better life for himself and Eva, the former fiancée of a friend who fell in battle, he emigrates to Argus, a town in North Dakota, in the United States. The artist Delphine, in whom Eva will find a friend, also moves there. To relieve Eva's homesickness, Fidelis founds a singing club.
Oz
Director (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 8
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The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
Twin Peaks
Director (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 8.3
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The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
Homicide: Life on the Street
Director (4 ep.)
event1993 star_border 8
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An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.
Tales from the Crypt
Director (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8
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Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
Houdini
Director (2 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7
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Harry Houdini emerges as America's first bonafide world-renowned superstar.
Hotel Adlon
Director (3 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6.9
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The mini-series follows the construction and history of the famous Adlon hotel in Berlin, as seen through the eyes of Sonja Schadt, the youngest member of the wealthy fictional Schadt family who are friends with the Adlons.
The Mists of Avalon
Director (2 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.8
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The Mists of Avalon is a 2001 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was produced by American cable channel TNT and directed by Uli Edel.
Der Club der singenden Metzger
Director (4 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6.2
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A young man and his wife struggling to create a good life for themselves in a new country. Based on Louise Erdrich's novel 'The Master Butchers Singing Club'.
Ring of the Nibelungs
Screenplay (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 8
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The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge treasure, Siegfried ignores the curse that lies on the hoard - which now seems to endanger his love to beautiful Norse warrior queen Brunhild.
The Palace
Director (6 ep.)
event2022 star_border 6.5
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Set in the Friedrichstadt-Palast music hall in the late 1980s, follows twin sisters as they search for their roots.
Rebel Highway
Director (10 ep.)
event1994 star_border 10
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Rebel Highway was a short-lived revival of American International Pictures created and produced by Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff and Debra Hill for the Showtime channel in 1994. The concept was 10-week series of 1950s "drive-in classic" B-movies remade "with a '90s edge". The impetus for the series, according to Arkoff was, "what it would be like if you made Rebel Without a Cause today. It would be more lurid, sexier, and much more dangerous, and you definitely would have had Natalie Wood's top off".
Julius Caesar
Director (2 ep.)
event2003 star_border 6
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Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
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