German director dies at 81 Wolfgang Petersen.

As confirmed by his representatives, Petersen died on August 12 in Los Angeles after battling pancreatic cancer.

The most memorable moment in the film career of Wolfgang Petersen was “Das Boot” from 1982 A claustrophobic war drama set aboard a German submarine during World War II. Beyond distraction six Oscar nominations the film was also a commercial success, and at a production cost of $18.5 million, “Das Boot” became the most expensive German film ever made.

The director was born in 1941 in Emden. Following the success of “Das Boot” and its acclaim, Petersen directed 1984 his first English-language film, a children’s fantasy story “Endless story”, which paved the way for a successful career in Hollywood, where he put his name in several successful blockbusters.

Wolfgang Petersen led, among other things, Air Force One (1997) on Harrison Ford and worked with some of America’s most famous actors.

1993 sent him Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich in a thriller “In the line of fire” and two years later he collaborated with Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman for thriller “Flash”, in which we are talking about a virus that enters California from African monkeys.

He also sat in the director’s chair for “Troy” from 2004 on Brad Pitt, whereas Petersen’s last film was a German comedy “Four Against the Bank of Death” from 2016.

According to the BBC and Guardian.