Wolfgang Petersen

Wolfgang Petersen was born in 1941 in Emden, the son of a naval officer, and grew up in Hamburg, where he shot his first films on 8 mm during his school years. In 1966 he entered the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, then worked for television from 1971 and directed, among other things, six episodes of a crime series. He directed his first feature film for cinema in 1974. Settled in Los Angeles in 1986, he died there in 2022.

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• CinemaDas BootWolfgang Petersen · 1981Cinema