- Helmut Dietl at the age of 70 years died
- “Munich stories “,” Monaco Franze “,” Kir Royal “- to Dietl not passed
- cult director suffering from lung cancer
The writer-director Helmut Dietl ( 1944-2015), the German film industry lost one of its greatest artists. Since 2013 the German Woody Allen suffered from lung cancer. He had the rare talent, intelligent and social media satire to tell entertaining and take it to the general public. Of the common people from the “Münchner stories” to crowd of “Kir Royale”, the astute look at “his” milieu was Dietl’s trademark, the filmmaker was always biting over the years – “At the time of ‘Monaco Franze’ I liked the people still prefer “he said in an interview with the” time “.
” Monaco Franze “
Dietl was in 1974 with the” Munich listen up stories ” with the series “Monaco Franze – Der ewige Stenz” he then in 1983 into one of the most well-known filmmaker in Germany. The focus of the series is the police commissioner Franz Münchinger aka “Monaco Franze (Helmut Fischer). Franze is an arrant playboy and womanizer, but in a loving marriage with the antique dealer Annette von Soettingen (Ruth Maria Kubitschek) married. The ten episodes of Franzes act mostly trying to conceal his affairs or to avoid contact with Annette’s friends from the “better society”. The series was produced by BR nationwide shown by the ARD and repeated again and again because of their popularity. In addition Dietl also died in 1997, leading man fishing with “Monaco Franze” had his breakthrough.
“Kir Royal”
Even with ” Kir Royal “(1986) remained loyal Dietl Munich as a subject. In the satirical TV series of the filmmakers took the Munich “Evening News” and their gossip reporter Michael Graeter targeted. Six episodes long accompanied Dietl Boulevard journalists Baby Schimmerlos (Franz Xaver Kroetz) on his adventures in the high society of the Bavarian capital. The winner of the Grimme Award Series is counted today among the highlights of Dietl’s work. With his last movie “Zettl” (2012) Dietl returned to the subject. After it had been prior to disagreements with Kroetz, assumed here Michael “Bully” Herbig the lead role of Max Zettl, a Bavarian chauffeur who makes an online gossip reporter career in Berlin. Building on the success of “Kir Royal” late sequel was not able, even with the critics fell through the strip. Dietl was under the “malice, which spilled over this film [...] suffered severely,” as he later told the “time”.
“Schtonk” “Schtonk”
“Kir Royal” Dietl focused on cinema and celebrated the same in 1992 with the media satire 
“Rossini”
Dietl’s wave of success came in 1997 with “Rossini – or the murderous question of who slept with whom” on. The plot of the comedy is located in Munich’s media scene, which meets in the restaurant “Rossini”. The director Uhu Gypsy (Götz George) and the producer Oskar Reiter (Heiner Lauterbach) try the reclusive writer Jakob Windisch (Joachim Krol) to talk to a film adaptation of his bestseller “The Lorelei”. Riders compete besides still with the poet Bodo Kriegnitz (Jan Josef Liefers) to the beautiful Valerie (Gudrun Landgrebe). “Rossini” belonged with 3.2 million visitors in Germany’s most successful films of the year 1997 and was formally showered with awards, including the Bavarian and German Film Award and the Golden Screen.
” the Looking for and the Finding of Love “
The time of the great popular success was for Dietl for” Rossini “already over, unlike the TV satire” Late Show “(1999 ) was the tragicomedy “the Looking for and the Finding of Love” 
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