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- Born 1950 in Heidelberg, Germany. Since 1970 TV movies, feature films, shorts, documentaries, specials, worked on various theatrical feature films as co-director, editor, trailer and dubbing director in Germany, England, USA and Africa. Pakleppa has worked in New German Cinema since 1972, when he was co-operating in "Filmverlag der Autoren" with directors like R.W. Fassbinder, Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. In the 1980s he founded the German theatrical distributor "Filmwelt" and developed a European network of co-production and distribution and was either distributing or co-producing major works of the New British and American Cinema including films of John Carpenter, Neil Jordan, Monty Python, the animation classics "When The Wind Blows", "The Last Unicorn" (German version) and "Valhalla", as much as classics and independent German films. His company Continent Film distributes classics and produces independent feature films and documentaries.
- IMDb mini biography by: Michael Pakleppa
- 52 years of experience in editing, camera, production, directing and special effects.
- Worked with Neil Innes (Monty Python, The Rutles, Scottish-English comedian, musician and writer) on "The Barkers" and the new "Rutles" Album. Develops European feature films and TV programs with Ray Cooper, former head of HandMade Films and percussionist, close friend of the late George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Elton John (Grammy Award for his film "Concert For George").
- He has also worked as a film critique, film editor, press and publicity director, screenwriter and art director in Germany and the UK and created in the 1970s a unique series of art house cinemas with inventive classical and independent programming.
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