Wolfgang Becker

Cast, Director, Screenplay, Director of photography, Editing, Producer
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Biography

Wolfgang Becker was born in 1954 in Hemer/Westphalia and studied German, History and American Studies at the Free University in Berlin. He followed this with a job at a sound studio in 1980 and then began studies at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb). He started working as a freelance cameraman in 1983 and graduated from the dffb in 1986 with "Butterflies" ("Schmetterlinge"), which won the Student Academy Award in 1988, the Golden Leopard at Locarno and the Saarland Prime-Minister's Award at the 1988 Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken. He directed the "Tatort"-episode, "Blutwurstwalzer", before making his second feature "Children's Games" ("Kinderspiele", 1992), the documentary "Celibidache" (1992), and the Berlinale competition features "Life is All You Get" ("Das Leben ist eine Baustelle", 1997), and "Good Bye, Lenin!" (2003).

Ten years after the worldwide success of "Good Bye, Lenin!", Becker started production on a new feature length film. Based on the novel by Daniel Kehlmann, "Ich & Kaminiski" is the story of journalist who takes an old and blind artist on an eventful trip through Europe.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Filmography

2024/2025
  • Director
  • Screenplay
2013-2015
  • Co-Autor
  • Director
  • Producer
2006
  • Participation
2002-2005
  • Participation
2001-2003
  • Director
  • Screenplay
2002
  • Creative supervisor
2000
  • Director
1999/2000
  • Director (other)
1995-1997
  • Cast
  • Director
  • Screenplay
1994/1995
  • Participation
1993/1994
  • Cast
1991/1992
  • Director
  • Screenplay
  • Editing
1991
  • Director
1990
  • Director
1990
  • Director of photography
1988/1989
  • Director of photography
1987/1988
  • Director
  • Screenplay
  • Editing
1983/1984
  • Assistant camera
  • Still photography
1984
  • Director of photography