 Author Patrick Süskind (qv) is known to be very skeptical and for  a long time did not want to sell the movie rights to his novel. His  experience with producer Bernd Eichinger (qv) and others who  desperately wanted to turn "Das Parfum" into a movie was shown in  the satire _Rossini (1997)_ (qv), for which he wrote the screenplay  himself. His character is the strange author Jakob Windisch,  Producer Bernd Eichinger (qv) is portrayed in the character Oskar  Reiter. In Rossini, the book everybody was fighting over was changed  into a novel about the Loreley