Jan Schütte Filmography

Occupation:: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Having begun his filmmaking career making documentaries, it is not surprising that director Jan Schutte's fictional features are realistic and centered on current social issues. Schutte emerged as a documentary director in 1982 after a liberal arts background in college. His documentary credits...Read More

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Love Comes Lately

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Otto Tausig, Tovah Feldshuh, Rhea Perlman, Barbara Hershey, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: A charming elderly Jewish writer who lives in a state of "permanent confusion" finds his vivid imagination becoming the bane of his existence in director Jan Schütte's adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's richly textured short stories. Max Kohn (Otto Tausig) is an Read More

6/13/08
Supertex

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stephen Mangan, Jan Decleir, Maureen Lipman, Elliot Levey, Tracy-Ann Oberman

2003
The Farewell

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Monika Bleibtreu, Jeanette Hain

Synopsis: Infused with a mood of apprehension and decay, this film concerns theatrical luminary Bertolt Brecht (played by Josef Bierbichler) and his inner circle on the final day of their summer vacation in 1956. Set entirely in Brecht's summer house in the East German countryside, the guests consist Read More

1/16/01
Auf Wiedersehen Amerika

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Otto Tausig, Jakov Bodo, Zofia Merle, Christa Berndl, George Tabori

Synopsis: The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have Read More

1994
Winckelmanns Reisen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

Synopsis: Winckelmann is a travelling salesman in Germany. Somehow he makes a living, but only with great difficulty. Over the course of the film, one learns a great deal about his personal life. His father still dreams of the time he visited Miami in the U.S., and his current girlfriend appears to be ready Read More

1989
Drachenfutter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bhasker, Ric Young, Buddy Uzzaman, Ulrich Wildgruber, Wolf-Dietrich Sprenger

Synopsis: This compelling German-Swiss drama offers subtle commentary and insight into the difficulties faced by Third World refugees who come to Germany. The story of a Pakistani refugee trying to make a living in Hamburg is simply and directly told in a way that enhances filmmaker Jan Schutte's desire to Read More

1987