Rainer Simon

{{short description|German film director}}

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| name = Rainer Simon

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1941|1|11|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hainichen, Saxony, Germany

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| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1964-2000

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Rainer Simon (born 11 January 1941) is a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1964 and 2000. His How to Marry a King (1969) and Six Make it Through the World (1972) are highly imaginative adaptations of fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers, and together with his 1975 Till Eulenspiegel, which is based on Renaissance stories that had been Christa and Gerhard Wolf recast into a film narration incorporating period history, present a very substantial contribution to World Cinema's carnevalesque film genre.{{Cite journal |last=Preuss |first=Evelyn |title=“The Bakhtinian Headstands of East German Cinema.” Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film. Eds. Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2006: 101-117. |url=https://www.academia.edu/35309002/_The_Bakhtinian_Headstands_of_East_German_Cinema_Remapping_World_Cinema_Identity_Culture_and_Politics_in_Film_Eds_Stephanie_Dennison_and_Song_Hwee_Lim_London_New_York_Wallflower_Press_2006_101_117 |journal=Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film. Eds. Stephanie Dennison and Song Hwee Lim. London; New York: Wallflower Press, 2006: 101-117.}} His 1985 film The Woman and the Stranger won the Golden Bear award at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1985/03_preistr_ger_1985/03_Preistraeger_1985.html |title=Berlinale: 1985 Prize Winners |accessdate=8 January 2011 |work=berlinale.de}}{{cite web |url=http://www.umass.edu/defa/memories/rainer_simon.shtml |title=DEFA: Rainer Simon |accessdate=11 January 2011 |work=umass.edu}} His 1980 film Jadup and Boel entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival in 1989.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1989 |title=16th Moscow International Film Festival (1989) |accessdate=2 March 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130316085017/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1989 |archivedate=16 March 2013 }}