![]() ![]() For him, the Americans were "representatives of a better world, rich, powerful and friendly." ![]() In contrast, "These Americans on their ships, well-fed and laughing, were a salvation," he once said. He explained it probably went back to the post-war era, when Germans were so fed up and demoralized by everything that had happened during WWII. Petersen never made a secret of his enthusiasm for the US. He had gained the reputation of being a reliable worker and a compassionate colleague. Top US film stars including Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, Glenn Close, George Clooney, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt followed Petersen's direction over the following years. But it was In the Line of Fire two years later, a movie starring Clint Eastwood as a secret service agent, that made a difference. Petersen's first real Hollywood movie was Shattered, in 1991. Just a year later, he was already working for an American studio, albeit in a film studio in Munich, where he shot the sci-fi film Enemy Mine. In 1984, Peterson completed his next film, The NeverEnding Story - the most expensive film in German film history back then - back home in Germany. The German film was even nominated for six Oscars. He said yes, and the rest is history: Das Boot was a huge success at home and abroad when it was released in 1981. 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. When the COVID-10 pandemic broke out a year ago, many people turned to movies depicting the outbreak of a mysterious, deadly illness. ![]()
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