Wolfgang Petersen was a German film director, producer and screenwriter.
Wolfgang Petersen Movies: Which films did Wolfgang Petersen direct?
The German film director Wolfgang Petersen directed over 20 films.
Following his 1970 graduation film, “I Will Kill You, Wolf,” Petersen had an offer to direct the long-running German crime series “Tatort.”
Wolfgang Petersen’s first theatrical feature film was One or the Other (1974), and he followed that with The Consequence in 1977, for which he also wrote the adapted screenplay.
Petersen’s next feature was the World War II epic Das Boot, released in early 1982. He also helmed the space-set 1985 sci-fi pic Enemy Mine and directed and co-wrote 1984’s fantasy film The NeverEnding Story.
His other films include the assassination thriller In the Line of Fire (1993) Outbreak (1995), Air Force One (1997), The Perfect Storm (2000), Troy (2004), Poseidon (2006), a remake of The Poseidon Adventure, the 1972 blockbuster about a capsized luxury liner, Vier gegen die Bank (2016), and many more.