German director Wolfgang Petersenknown for such films as Das Boot, The Neverending Story and The Perfect Storm, died Friday at the age of 81 at his home in Brentwood (Los Angeles, USA). California) due to pancreatic cancer, Hollywood media outlets reported Tuesday.
Petersen (Emden, Germany, 1941) left an important legacy in the Hollywood industry that began with “Das Boot” (1981).
With this movie about submarines in times The Second World Warstarring Jürgen Prochnow, was nominated for a BAFTA and six Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Since then, Wolfgang Petersen was a regular at Hollywood with widely acclaimed films such as The Neverending Story (1984), known in Latin America as The Story of Sin, based on the novel by Michael Ende.
Career of Wolfgang Petersen
Directed and co-written by Petersen, The Neverending Story follows little Bastian (Barrett Oliver)’s adventures between reality and a fantasy world.
His early career began with short films and films shown on German television in the 1960s and 1970s.
Creating action, thriller and fantasy films, Petersen was behind such recognizable titles as My Enemy (1985), Shattered (1991), In the Line of Fire (1993), Flash (1995). Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2001), Troy (2004) and Poseidon (2006).
Studio shooting of action films, which at the time required sophisticated technique, was one of Petersen’s strengths, and he became a sought-after director even among the elite actors who wanted to work with him.
Petersen’s last feature film was Four Against All. Bank” (2016), filmed in German. It was a new version of the crime adventure comedy that premiered in 1976 on the small screen.
Celebrities Petersen has worked with
George Clooney, Morgan Griman, Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close, Harrison Ford, Rene Russo, Brad Pitt, Diane Lane and Dustin Hoffman top the long list of celebrity performers commissioned by the German director.
Funeral arrangements after death Wolfgang Petersen They will be held privately by the decision of his wife Marie Antoinette and son Daniel from his first marriage to Ursula. The director also left a daughter-in-law, Berit; and grandchildren Maya and Julien. And, of course, his long career in the seventh art.
(According to EFE).
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