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Wolfgang Petersen - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Wolfgang Petersen - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor.
Born March 14, 1941, Emden, Germany - German film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
He spent his childhood in Hamburg, where he attended school and graduated from high school. Already at this time, he began to shoot the first 8 mm films. In 1960-1964, he was an assistant director at the Molodoy Theater in Hamburg, where he staged his first performance as a director; attends acting school. In 1965-1966 he studied theater studies in West Berlin and Hamburg. In 1966-1969 he studied at the Academy of Film and Television in West Berlin. His one-hour graduation film "I will kill you, Wolf" (Ich werde dich toten, Wolf) is buying television. Petersen regularly makes television films (in particular for the popular series "Crime Scene"), which are popular with audiences and critics.
In 1974 he won the award for the film One of Us Two (Einer von uns beiden, 1973). In 1977, the film "Consequences" (Die Konsequenz, 1977) with Jurgen Prokhnov about homosexual relations introduces discord into the system of the First German Television (Bavarian Television refuses to show it on its channel), but at the same time gets a great audience resonance. Abroad, "Consequences", as well as his television films "Certificate of Maturity" (Reifezeugnis, 1977), in which the young Nastassja Kinski plays the main role for the first time, and "Black and White as Days and Nights" (Schwarz und weiss wie Tage und Nachte, 1978), a psychotriller about a fanatical chess player (Bruno Ganz), is successfully shown in cinemas.
In 1980, due to his excellent directorial reputation, Studio Bavaria (after disagreements with various American directors) commissioned Petersen with the internationally oriented large-scale production of the film "Boat" (Das Boot, 1981) based on the novel by Lothar-Gunther Buchheim. The tough and realistic film (in film and TV versions) sparks a debate regarding the depiction of the submarine war, and its success with viewers in West Germany and abroad is crowned with 6 Oscar nominations (direction, script, camera, editing, sound, sound editing ).
Petersen then directed Die unendliche Geschichte (1983) based on Michael Ende's bestseller with a budget of over DM 50 million. As in the case of the film "Boat", the author of the literary source distances himself from the adaptation, which further increases the audience's interest.
Since 1984 Wolfgang Petersen has been working in Hollywood.
