Ottokar Runze (19 August 1925 – 22 September 2018) was a German film producer, director and screenwriter.^[1] His 1974 film In the Name of the People was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear.^[2] The following year, he was a member of the jury at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Five Suspects (dir. Kurt Hoffmann, 1950, producer)
• Viola and Sebastian [de] (1972) — loosely based on Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
• Der Lord von Barmbeck [de] (1974)
• In the Name of the People (1974)
• Knife in the Back [de] (1975)
• A Lost Life (1976)
• The Standard (1977) — based on The Standard by Alexander Lernet-Holenia
• The Murderer [de] (1979) — based on a novel by Georges Simenon
• Star Without a Sky [de] (1980) — based on Stern ohne Himmel [de] by Leonie Ossowski
• High Society Limited (1982)
• Non-Stop Trouble with Spies [de] (1983)
• Ein heikler Fall [de] (1986–1988, TV series)
• Der veruntreute Himmel (1990, TV film) — based on a novel by Franz Werfel
• Die Hallo-Sisters [de] (1990)
• Linda (1992)
• Goldstaub (1993, TV film)
• Tatort: Laura, mein Engel (1994, TV series episode)
• 100 Jahre Brecht (1998) — based on works by Bertolt Brecht
• The Volcano (1999) — based on a novel by Klaus Mann