# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/percy-adlon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:57:39.962Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/percy-adlon"
name: "Percy Adlon"
slug: "percy-adlon"
description: "Paul Rudolf Parsifal \"Percy\" Adlon was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement, and is known for his strong female characters and positive portrayals of lesbian relationships. He is best known for his 1987 film Bagdad Cafe, starring Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder and Jack Palance and subsequent films such as Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989), Salmonberries (1991) and Younger and Younger (1993). Adlon's films were shown in competition regularly at international film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and others."
tagline: "German documentary filmmaker and film producer (1935-2024)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/7TV2Vgwr0miRbsS0QDApPbA7l12.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1935-06-01"
deathDate: "2024-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9917355371900823
  historical:           18.912712
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000727/"
    handle:    "nm0000727"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.percyadlon.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump