Directing
Wolfgang Becker
Born — Died
1954-06-22 — 2024-12-12
Place of birth
Hemer, Germany
Known for
Directing
Credits
24 titles
Wolfgang Becker was a German film director and screenwriter who also occasionally appeared as an actor, cameraman, film editor and producer. His greatest success came with the 2003 tragicomedy Good Bye, Lenin!
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German Film Award
1951
7.5Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003
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Bavarian Film Awards
1979
6.5Micha unwittingly becomes a German hero when a journalist portrays him as the mastermind behind the mass exodus from East Germany.
Berlin Hero
2025
2.0No synopsis available yet.
Una belleza nueva
2006
5.9Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Me and Kaminski
2015
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen’s career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who later became a member of the Red Army Faction) as well as directors Wolfgang Becker, Detlev Buck and Christian Petzold. All have fond memories of forgetting their troubles after having poured their hearts out over a cup of coffee in Helene’s office – for Helene was both friend and advisor to countless film students.
Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005
8.0Featuring interviews with daughter Nicola Lubitsch, film historians Enno Patalas and Jan-Christopher Horak and filmmaker Tom Tykwer (among others), Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin documents the life of the legendary filmmaker from his birth in 1892 to his departure for Hollywood in 1923. The documentary is sprinkled with excerpts from Lubitsch's rarely-seen early work (both as actor and director) and offers fascinating insights into the German film industry in the silent era.
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: From Schönhauser Allee to Hollywood
2006
1990s · 2 titles
6.7After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Life Is All You Get
1997
6.2A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.5Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003
7.5Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Good Bye, Lenin!
2003
6.5Micha unwittingly becomes a German hero when a journalist portrays him as the mastermind behind the mass exodus from East Germany.
Berlin Hero
2025
5.9Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Me and Kaminski
2015
5.9Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Me and Kaminski
2015
5.9Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
Me and Kaminski
2015
6.7After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Life Is All You Get
1997
6.7After he loses his job, his father, and his girlfriend, Jan's life is a shambles. Then suddenly he meets freakish street musician Vera, and a bittersweet romance unfolds...
Life Is All You Get
1997
4.1Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even on vacation, is obsessed with running his business. Meanwhile, Anya meets the young writer Roy Benter.
Riviera-Story
1961
5.6When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Child's Play
1993
5.6When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Child's Play
1993
9.0The impassive gaze of a taciturn adolescent loner named Andi, sole witness to the drowning of a young girl in an overgrown, abandoned local canal.
Butterflies
1988
6.3All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso's voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the largest city of the Southern Hemisphere, with an incessant dynamics of cultural mixtures, with immigrants of all the world and migrants of all parts of Brazil. The gathering of these peculiarities are seen through the 13 film directors's sensibilities and their segments.
Welcome to São Paulo
2004
5.8Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Germany ’09 – 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation
2009
Short-documentary by Wolfgang Becker
Nicht mit uns
1991