Wolfgang Petersen, the German filmmaker-blockbuster films “In the Line of Fire,” “Air Force One” and “The Perfect Storm,” has died. He was 81.
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Petersen died Friday at his home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood after a battle with pancreatic cancer
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Petersen, born in north German port city of Emden, made two features before his 1982 breakthrough, “Das Boot,” then the most expensive movie in German film history.
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The 149-minute film (the original cut ran 210 minutes) chronicled the intense claustrophobia of life aboard a doomed German U-boat during the Battle of the Atlantic
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Heralded was nominated for six Oscars, including for Petersen’s direction and his adaptation of Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s best-selling 1973 novel.
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Petersen, born in 1941, recalled as a child running alongside American ships as they threw down food. In the confusion of postwar Germany
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Petersen — who started out in theater before attending Berlin’s Film and Television Academy in the late 1960s
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“In school they never talked about the time of Hitler -- they just blocked it out of their minds and concentrated on rebuilding Germany,”
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We kids were looking for more glamorous dreams than rebuilding a destroyed country though, so we were really ready for it when American pop culture came to Germany
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