Wolfgang Petersen
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Directing
Wolfgang Petersen was a German-born screenwriter, producer and film director who spent most of his career in the United States. In the 1960s he began working directing plays at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg. After becoming interested in theater in Berlin and Hamburg, Petersen attended the Berlin Film and Television Academy (1966-70). His first productions were for German state television, and it was during his work on the popular crime series Crime Scene that he met actor Jürgen Prochnow, who would later appear in his iconic film Das Boot (1981). His other films include The NeverEnding Story (1984), cult film Enemy Mine (1985), Shattered (1991), In the Line of Fire (1993), Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), Poseidon (2006) and Four Against the Bank (2016), his latest film.
Filmography
- U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot' (2023)
- Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story (2021)
- Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films (2017)
- Four Against the Bank (2016)
- Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten (2013)
- Der Bernd (2012)
- Wolfgang Petersen: Back to the Boat (2011)
- Poseidon (2006)
- Gottschalk meets Petersen (2005)
- Troy (2004)
- The Agency (2003)
- Starbuck Holger Meins (2002)
- The Perfect Storm (2000)
- Bicentennial Man (1999)
- Instinct (1999)
- Red Corner (1997)
- Air Force One (1997)
- Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung (1996)
- Outbreak (1995)
- In the Line of Fire (1993)
- Shattered (1991)
- Enemy Mine (1985)
- The NeverEnding Story (1984)
- Das Boot: Behind The Scenes (1981)
- Das Boot (1981)
- Black and White Like Day and Night (1978)
- The Consequence (1977)
- Planübung (1977)
- Four Against the Bank (1976)
- Hans in Luck (1976)
- Pinned to the Ground (1974)
- One or the Other of Us (1974)
- Van der Valk and the Rich (1973)
- Smog (1973)
- Anna and Totó (1972)
- I Will Kill You, Wolf (1971)
- Ich Nicht (1969)
- The Cuckoo Years (1967)
- The Foundling (1967)
- Der Eine - der Andere (1967)
- Stadt auf Stelzen (1965)