Wolfgang Petersen
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- ComedyBicentennial Man
- ActionEnemy Mine
- AdventureThe NeverEnding Story
- ActionIn the Line of Fire
- ActionAir Force One
- ActionIn the Line of Fire
- ActionAir Force One
- ActionOutbreak
- ActionOutbreak
- AdventureThe NeverEnding Story
- ComedyFour Against the Bank
- AdventureDas Boot
- CrimeRed Corner
- AdventureDas Boot
- CrimeShattered
- ActionPoseidon
- CrimeShattered
- ActionPoseidon
- ActionThe Perfect Storm
- CrimeShattered
- ActionThe Perfect Storm
- DramaTroy
- DramaTroy
- DramaDas Boot
- DramaBlack and White Like Day and Night
- DramaDie Stadt im Tal
- Science FictionSmog
- CrimeFour Against the Bank
- DramaIch Nicht
- DramaI Will Kill You, Wolf
- DramaPlanübung
- DocumentaryDas Boot - The Making of
- CrimeVan der Valk and the Rich
- movieDer Eine - der Andere
- DramaHans in Luck
- DramaStellenweise Glatteis
- DramaThe Consequence
- Science FictionSmog
- DramaIch Nicht
- DramaI Will Kill You, Wolf
- DramaPlanübung
- movieDer Eine - der Andere
- DocumentaryColor Test: The Red Flag
- DramaThe Consequence
- ActionOne or the Other of Us
- DocumentaryGottschalk meets Petersen
- DramaInstinct
- DramaDas Boot
- DocumentaryDas Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
- DocumentaryStarbuck Holger Meins
- DocumentaryDer Bernd
- DocumentaryHollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
- DocumentaryAnd the Oscar Goes To...
- DocumentaryFilmlegenden. Deutsch
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Wolfgang Petersen
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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.
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- Emden, Germany
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