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Ahoy!
In 2000, Wolfgang Petersen salutes the film cutter Andrea Gail in the port of Hamburg.
The fate of the ship, which went missing in the North Atlantic in 1991 and whose history was worked up by non-fiction author Sebastian Junger, served Petersen as the inspiration for the film »The Storm«.
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Atlantic, during the Second World War: Petersen erected a monument in film history in 1981 with the World War II epic »Das Boot«.
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The crew on a cinema voyage: Film quotes such as "Quiet, Johann", "The boat has to withstand that" are legendary to this day.
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Childhood dreams: In the early 1980s, Petersen filmed Michael Ende's »The Neverending Story«.
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Dustin Hoffman in »Outbreak – Silent Killer« from 1995: the strip, which is about the discovery of a previously unknown virus, is still relevant 27 years after its premiere thanks to the corona pandemic.
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Roar at them: Brad Pitt as Achilles in 2004's Troy.
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In the 1993 film In the Line of Fire, Agent Frank Horrigan (played by Clint Eastwood) must confront the trauma of failing to save the life of US President John F. Kennedy.
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The captain leaves the ship: Wolfgang Petersen, here in Munich in 2019, died at the age of 81 – as a result of his cancer.
Photo: Felix Hörhager / dpa