| Birth Date: | 1961 1, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Marburg, Germany |
| Birth Name: | Roland Suso Richter |
| Occupation: | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
| Yearsactive: | 1983 – present |
Roland Suso Richter (born January 7, 1961, in Marburg) is a German film director and producer.
Richter was born in Marburg and lived there until 1980, when he graduated (Abitur) from the local Elisabethschule. Wanting to pursue a film career, he worked as an intern for video productions and as an actor on stage. In 1982, he appeared as an extra in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.
A year later, he and actor Frank Röth produced their first film, , which was released in 1985. Many TV films followed until 14 Days to Life was released in 1997, earning Richter favorable reviews.
The 1999 film After the Truth, a fictional account of an 80-year-old Josef Mengele's trial before a German court, did not receive funding from the German film foundation due to its controversial theme. It was financed privately by lead actor Götz George and others, and received a number of awards at film festivals. He also directed Der Tunnel, a made-for-television movie loosely based on true events in Berlin following the closing of the East German border in August 1961 and the subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall.[1]
In 2003, Richter gave his English-language directing debut with the psychological thriller The I Inside, starring Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Polley, which was compared to Memento[2] and The Butterfly Effect.[3]
Another of Richter's projects was the television movie Mogadischu, an account of the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977 and its subsequent storming by the GSG 9 counter-terrorism unit.