The Oscar-nominated German writer-director leaves behind a legacy including Das Boot and Hollywood classics including In the Line of Fire and The NeverEnding Story.
Wolfgang Petersen's 1982 breakthrough film Das Boot was nominated for six Oscars
The Oscar-nominated writer and director died of pancreatic cancer in his Los Angeles home in the company of his wife, Maria Borgel Petersen. The 149-minute film chronicled the intense claustrophobia of life aboard a doomed German U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic."In school, they never talked about the time of Hitler — they just blocked it out of their minds and concentrated on rebuilding Germany," Petersen told The Los Angeles Times in 1993.
Tipped as arguably his finest Hollywood film, In the Line of fire grossed $US177 million worldwide and scored three Oscar nominations.Air Force One, released in 1997, starred Harrison Ford and was a $US315 million global box office hit. "I was always impressed as a kid how strong it is, all the damage the water could do when it just turned within a couple of hours, and smashed against the shore."
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