Ottokar Runze

producer, director, writer

Ottokar Runze was born on Aug 19, 1925 in Germany. Ottokar Runze's big-screen debut came with Die seltsame Gräfin directed by Josef von Báky in 1961. Ottokar Runze is known for Karakum directed by Arend Agthe, Max Kullmann stars as Robert and Murad Orazov as Murad. Ottokar Runze has got 6 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Ottokar Runze achieved is German Film Awards. The upcoming new movie Ottokar Runze plays is Der Vulkan which will be released on Oct 21, 1999.

Runze started his career at the age of 23 as an actor. But already at 26 he was manager of the avantgardistic "Theater in the British Center". Later he worked as a writer and director for dubbing foreign movies to German. His first jobs as director were at various theaters in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. In parallel he started to make movies himself, 1972 he took over the aurora television in Hamburg. His first big success as director was