Roland Suso Richter (born January 7, 1961, in Marburg) is a German film director and producer.

Richter was born in Marburg and lived there until 1980, when he graduated (Abitur) from the local Elisabethschule. Wanting to pursue a film career, he worked as an intern for video productions and as an actor on stage. In 1982, he appeared as an extra in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Veronika Voss.

A year later, he and actor Frank Röth produced their first film, Kolp [de], which was released in 1985. Many TV films followed until 14 Days to Life was released in 1997, earning Richter favorable reviews.

The 1999 film After the Truth, a fictional account of an 80-year-old Josef Mengele's trial before a German court, did not receive funding from the German film foundation due to its controversial theme. It was financed privately by lead actor Götz George and others, and received a number of awards at film festivals. He also directed Der Tunnel, a made-for-television movie loosely based on true events in Berlin following the closing of the East German border in August 1961 and the subsequent construction of the Berlin Wall.^[1]

In 2003, Richter gave his English-language directing debut with the psychological thriller The I Inside, starring Ryan Phillippe and Sarah Polley, which was compared to Memento^[2] and The Butterfly Effect.^[3]

Another of Richter's projects was the television movie Mogadischu, an account of the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 in 1977 and its subsequent storming by the GSG 9 counter-terrorism unit.

• 1984: Kolp [de]
• 1990: Alles Paletti (TV series)
• 1992: Frohes Fest, Lucie! (TV film)
• 1992: Freunde fürs Leben (TV series)
• 1994: Svens Geheimnis (TV film)
• 1994: Alles außer Mord: Der Name der Nelke (TV series episode)
• 1994: Das Phantom – Die Jagd nach Dagobert [de] (TV film)
• 1994: Polizeiruf 110: Samstags, wenn Krieg ist (TV series episode)
• 1995: Risiko Null – Der Tod steht auf dem Speiseplan (TV film)
• 1997: Buddies (TV film)
• 1997: 14 Days to Life
• 1998: The Bubi Scholz Story [de] (TV film)
• 1999: Sara Amerika
• 1999: After the Truth
• 2000: A Handful of Grass
• 2001: The Tunnel (TV film)
• 2003: The I Inside
• 2004: Sterne leuchten auch am Tag (TV film)
• 2005: Under the Dark Sun of Africa [fr] (TV film)
• 2006: Dresden (TV film)
• 2007: The Miracle of Berlin [de] (TV film)
• 2007: Annas Alptraum kurz nach 6 (TV film)
• 2008: Mogadischu (TV film)
• 2010: The Frontier [de] (TV film)
• 2011: Jungle Child
• 2014: Public Enemies [de] (TV film)
• 2014: Ein todsicherer Plan (TV film)
• 2014: Der Weg nach San José (TV film)
• 2015: Grzimek [de] (TV film)
• 2016: Marthe's Secret [de] (TV film)