“Out of Rosenheim”: Mourning for cult director Percy Adlon. The Munich director has died in his adopted home of Los Angeles at the age of 88.
Adlon was born as the illegitimate son of Susanne Adlon and the tenor Rudolf Laubenthal. In 1978 he founded Pelemele Film with his wife Eleonore; From then on she was his producer. The couple first took care of the writer Robert Walser (1878-1956). The docudrama about the Swiss, “The Guardian and His Poet”, with Rolf Illig in the lead role, immediately won the Gold Grimme Prize.