Wolfgang Petersen Movies

A documentary about German cinema from 1960 to 1990. It follows "Verfluchte Liebe deutscher Film."

A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird...

Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Directorial debut of Wolfgang Petersen

In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War...

The international success of the film Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen made U-96 one of the most famous submarines in cinematic history. But the true...

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world...

Documentary about Hollywood.

One evening, the once successful architect Helmut is tired of the recession giving no jobs, he gets the idea of robbing a bank. He recruits members...

Author Gundolf S. Freyermuth goes Back to the Boat with director Wolfgang Petersen, star Jürgen Prochnow, and others to discuss the production...

Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager....

When Hans wakes up one morning, he realizes that he is longer than his bed, his feet sticking out over the edge of the bed. The young man remembers...

Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceased, Gerd Conradt takes an in-depth look at the...

Psychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a blackmailer.

Early 1970s. Anna, a 35-year-old medical assistant, falls in love with Totó, a Sicilian she meets while on holiday. When he joins her to start...

Every day they clean the dirty windows of their cars from the filthy film that has formed overnight. Measuring stations call a low smog warning. But...

Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a...

One man interacts with an invisible orchestra, another one is stuck in a bin.