Up to ‘NeverEnding Story,’ my career was one success after another,” Petersen told The Associated Press in 1993. You look at other directors they don’t have the big successes all the time. “In the Line of Fire” was a major hit, grossing $177 million worldwide and landing three Oscar nominations. Eastwood met with Petersen, checked out his work and gave him the job. Seeking a director for the film, Eastwood thought of Petersen, with whom he had chatted a few years earlier at a dinner party given by Arnold Schwarzenegger. In it, Petersen marshalled his substantial skill in building suspense for a more open-air but just as taut thriller that careened across rooftops and past Washington D.C. “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.Īrguably Petersen’s finest Hollywood film came almost a decade later in 1993’s “In the Line of Fire,” starring Clint Eastwood as a Secret Service agent protecting the president of the United States from John Malkovich’s assassin. 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. In the confusion of postwar Germany, Petersen - who started out in theater before attending Berlin’s Film and Television Academy in the late 1960s - gravitated toward Hollywood films with clear clashes of good and evil. The sequel takes place a year after the events of the predecessor and stages the first wartime experiences of a young submarine crew, while the nascent Resistance is forming in the port of La Rochelle.Petersen, born in 1941, recalled as a child running alongside American ships as they threw down food. The sequel was directed by Andreas Prochaska. The plot is again based on novels by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. In June 2016, a sequel produced by Bavaria Film as well as Sky Deutschland in the form of a TV series was announced for 2018. The classic film was one of the cornerstones of director Petersen's and cinematographer Jost Vacano's later moves to Hollywood, and for many of the actors, the film also meant a career boost or breakthrough in the film business. The film enjoyed great international success it was nominated for six Oscars, one Golden Globe, and one BAFTA Award each, and also won numerous German film awards. Thus, in addition to several models of different sizes, the entire interior of a German Class VII submarine was faithfully reproduced. The movie was a very elaborate and expensive production for the German film - even by today's standards - at DM 32 million (converted and adjusted for inflation, € 32.5 million today). The film is set in World War II in November and December 1941 and depicts the experiences of the crew of a German VII-C submarine on an enemy voyage during the U-boat warfare of the Battle of the Atlantic. Kapitänleutnant Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock "Der Alte"ĭas Boot is the 1981 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, directed by famed German director Wolfgang Petersen ( In the Line of Fire, Air Force One).
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