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Tom Tykwer

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Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tom Tykwer is the 581st most popular film director (down from 524th in 2019), the 3,138th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,770th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tom Tykwer ranks 581 out of 2,041. Before him are Patricio Guzmán, Boris Barnet, Otakar Vávra, Asghar Farhadi, Arthur Hiller, and Moshé Mizrahi. After him are Dan O'Bannon, Hal Ashby, Jaco Van Dormael, Hugh Hudson, Jennifer Lee, and Mauritz Stiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Tom Tykwer ranks 117. Before him are Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Yang Liwei, David Wenham, John C. Reilly, and Guido Marini. After him are Gavin Rossdale, Karl-Heinz Riedle, Eddie Irvine, William Zabka, Ignatius Aphrem II, and Jon Cryer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Tom Tykwer ranks 3,140 out of 7,253. Before him are Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714), Josef Fischer (1865), Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1556), and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven (1892). After him are Johann Niemann (1913), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1787), Günter Wand (1912), Willibald Pirckheimer (1470), Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1747), and Rudolf Stammler (1856).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Tom Tykwer ranks 28. Before him are Walter Ruttmann (1887), Werner Schroeter (1945), Alexander Kluge (1932), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Uli Edel (1947), and Henry Koster (1905). After him are Arnold Fanck (1889), Oskar Fischinger (1900), Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Bernd Eichinger (1949), E. A. Dupont (1891), and Percy Adlon (1935).

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