FILM DIRECTOR

Wolfgang Becker

1954 - 2024

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Wolfgang Becker (22 June 1954 – 12 December 2024) was a German film director and screenwriter, best known to international audiences for his work Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). He was a co-founder of the production company X Filme Creative Pool, which produced his first successful feature film, Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, in 1997. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wolfgang Becker is the 765th most popular film director (up from 865th in 2019), the 3,882nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,123rd in 2019) and the 38th most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Wolfgang Becker ranks 765 out of 2,041. Before him are Bruno Mattei, Dadasaheb Phalke, Gareth Edwards, Pupi Avati, Tomoyuki Tanaka, and Konrad Wolf. After him are Emil Loteanu, Henry Selick, Pierre Granier-Deferre, Max Fleischer, Budd Boetticher, and Rintaro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Wolfgang Becker ranks 243. Before him are Jaume Bartumeu, Pankaj Kapur, Mohsen Rezaee, Tony Thompson, Vladimir Smirnov, and Amaral. After him are Antón Lamazares, Wang Jianlin, Clem Burke, Naguib Sawiris, Mango, and Ross the Boss. Among people deceased in 2024, Wolfgang Becker ranks 266. Before him are Alberto Festa, Mario Boljat, Bora Đorđević, David Sanborn, Amaral, and Elias Khoury. After him are Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, Jesse Jane, Don Murray, Clement Quartey, Shigeharu Ueki, and Daniela Hodrová.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Becker ranks 3,884 out of 7,253. Before him are Konrad Wolf (1925), Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810), Michael Gielen (1927), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902), and Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1655). After him are Princess Amalie of Saxony (1794), Erich Marcks (1891), Per Mertesacker (1984), Julian Draxler (1993), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), and Jean Dufresne (1829).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Wolfgang Becker ranks 38. Before him are Bernd Eichinger (1949), E. A. Dupont (1891), Percy Adlon (1935), Herbert Selpin (1904), Peter Stein (1937), and Konrad Wolf (1925). After him are Fatih Akin (1973), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Michael Verhoeven (1938), Edgar Reitz (1932), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), and Christian Petzold (1960).

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