He said yes, and the rest is history: Das Boot was a huge success at home and abroad when it was released in 1981.
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At some point producers realized that the friendly young director held more promise than simply creating solid TV fare - and asked whether Petersen might be interested in filming the lengthy war novel Das Boot by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. It all began with television, where Petersen learned the trade. No other German director, apart from Roland Emmerich, has worked so successfully in the US since the end of World War II. Wolfgang Petersen's films combine solid skills with art - at least often enough to secure the northern German filmmaker a place of honor among Hollywood's foreign directors. An unknown deadly illness hits the fictional small town of Cedar Creek in California: Here, Rene Russo in 'Outbreak' Image: picture-alliance/United Archives The director of cult films 'Das Boot' and 'The NeverEnding Story' Vaccinated against COVID-19 shortly before his 80th birthday, he now feels "really free," he told German press agency dpa, describing the experience of getting the shots as an "amazing" one. He was among the people vaccinated at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, a vaccine super site, with 12,000 cars driving through every day and passengers getting vaccinated without even leaving their vehicle.
Featuring an all-star cast, including Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland, the medical disaster film was packed with action, helicopter chases and explosions.īut things turned out to be comparatively quiet in real life the film director who was born on March 14, 1941 in the seaport city of Emdem, in north-western Germany, spent the past year mostly isolated in his Los Angeles home.
Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak from 1995 was one of those titles that suddenly reappeared on the list of most-watched movies, ranking for instance as the fourth most popular film on Netflix in the US on March 13, 2020. “Das Boot” launched Petersen as a filmmaker in Hollywood, where he became one of the top makers of cataclysmic action adventures in films spanning war (2004′s “Troy,” with Brad Pitt), pandemic (the 1995 ebolavirus-inspired “Outbreak”) and other ocean-set disasters (2000′s “The Perfect Storm” and 2006′s “Poseidon,” a remake of “The Poseidon Adventure,” about the capsizing of an ocean liner).īut Petersen’s first foray in American moviemaking was child fantasy: the enchanting 1984 film “The NeverEnding Story.” Adapted from Michael Ende’s novel, “The NeverEnding Story” was about a magical book that transports its young reader into the world of Fantasia, where a dark force known as the Nothing rampages.When the COVID-10 pandemic broke out a year ago, many people turned to movies depicting the outbreak of a mysterious, deadly illness. We all lived for American movies, and by the time I was 11 I’d decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.”
“We kids were looking for more glamorous dreams than rebuilding a destroyed country though, so we were really ready for it when American pop culture came to Germany. “In school they never talked about the time of Hitler - they just blocked it out of their minds and concentrated on rebuilding Germany,” Petersen told The Los Angeles Times in 1993. Brandon Maxwell goes back to basics on Valentine's Day
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