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Wolfgang Petersen
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.
As director
Four Against the Bank
Poseidon
Troy
The Perfect Storm
Air Force One
Outbreak
In the Line of Fire
Shattered
Enemy Mine
The NeverEnding Story
Das Boot
Black and White Like Day and Night
The Consequence
Planübung
Hans in Luck
Four Against the Bank
Die Stadt im Tal
Stellenweise Glatteis
One or the Other of Us
Pinned to the Ground
Smog
Van der Valk and the Rich
I Will Kill You, Wolf
Ich Nicht
Der Eine - der Andere
Stadt auf Stelzen
As actor
U-96, The True Story of 'Das Boot'
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Der Bernd
Wolfgang Petersen: Back to the Boat
Gottschalk meets Petersen
Starbuck Holger Meins
Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
The NeverEnding Story
Das Boot: Behind The Scenes