Rainer Matsutani

Rainer Matsutani is one of Germany's most experienced and versatile film and TV directors. Rainer directed his first feature film Over My Dead Body (1995), a campy fantasy comedy, in 1995, while he was still in film school. The film went on to win numerous awards at festivals, and achieved cult status among fans. In 1996, he filmed an episode of the science fiction mini series LEXX - THE DARK ZONE (Episode: EATING PATTERN) for US Pay TV channel SHOWTIME. Rainer stayed true to the genre of fantasy films by directing THE ELEVATOR - SUPERNATURAL ENCOUNTER (1997/RTL) and FIREWALKER - CURSE OF THE VOLCANO (1998/ProSieben). After- wards, he directed Germany's first martial arts TV movie ULTIMATE FIGHTER (1999, ProSieben). His suspense thriller TRICKED (Sat1) became the most successful TV movie of 2000. He scored a theatrical hit with another fantasy comedy: 666 - SLEEPING WITH THE DEVIL. Between 2003 and 2005, with the thriller- trilogy THE VOICES, UNFAITHFUL and ONCE YOU WERE SILENT, he cre