Bernd Eichinger (11 April 1949 24 January 2011) was a German film producer and director.

Life and career

Death

Awards

Notable films

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Iris Berben (born 12 August 1950 in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German actress. She grew up in Hamburg, where her parents ran a restaurant.

After the Six-day War in 1967 she travelled to Israel, and afterwards became the partner of the Israeli singer Abi Ofarim. Since then she has been associated with the pro-Israel lobby and has campaigned against anti-semitism. She had a son, Oliver, in 1971, but never revealed the identity of the father.

In 2010, together with Bruno Ganz she was elected president of the German Film Academy.

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Awards

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Barret Spencer Oliver (born August 24 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actor and photographer. He is best known for his role as Bastian Bux in the film adaption of Michael Ende's novel ''The NeverEnding Story''.

Career

In his teens Oliver left acting to join the Church of Scientology's Sea Org and was stationed at its Gold Base compound. Later he became a printer and photographer specializing in nineteenth century processes such as collodion and Woodburytype. His work has been displayed in museum and gallery exhibitions and used in films. In 2007 he published ''A History of the Woodburytype''.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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Tamara "Tami" Stronach (born July 31, 1972 in Tehran, Iran) is a dancer and choreographer who has also worked as an actress.

Stronach was born to Israeli and Scottish parents. Her father, David Stronach, is a renowned archeologist of ruins of Ancient Persia (modern-day Iran) and a professor at UC Berkeley. David met his wife, an Israeli archeologist named Ruth Vaadia, in Tehran, where they both worked on excavations at a Tehran site. They got married shortly afterwards, and Tami is their second child.

The family fled to Israel during the Iranian Revolution in 1978 where they lived for a few years until the family had to relocate again to America for a job David got as a professor of archeology.

Stronach made her acting debut as "The Childlike Empress" in ''The Neverending Story'' (1984), a film adaptation of the novel ''Die Unendliche Geschichte (The Neverending Story)'' by Michael Ende. She has not since had many known acting roles; her parents preferred that she not further pursue acting to avoid the possible dangers many child actors in both movies and television sometimes encounter. She has nevertheless since acted in Chambre at La Ma Ma, and she has further studied acting with Laura Esterman. More recently, she has suggested that she would like to return to acting after her hiatus.

She also released a 45 rpm single around the same time as ''The Neverending Story'' entitled ''Tami Stronach - Fairy Queen''. The songs on the album are called "Fairy Queen" and "Riding On a Rainbow." The tracks are of similar synthpop orientation as the Giorgio Moroder/Limahl ''Neverending Story'' theme, and may have been an attempt to capitalize on its success.

Since the days of her childhood role, she has become a member of a well-respected Israeli dance troupe based in the U.S, the Neta Dance Company, joining them in 1996, she performed with the company mostly in places like the U.S, Israel and Europe. She has also choreographed and performed her own works, including "The Maid and the Marmalade" and "Contain yourself, darling." While her own work has typically been performed in New York City, she has begun more recently to take this abroad, such as with a tour of Australia in July 2006.

She is married to Greg Steinbruner since April 30, 2010. They had a daughter (born in January 2011).

References

Dance and choreography reviews

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Early life

Film work

His next feature was the World War II epic ''Das Boot'', released in early 1982. The film chronicles the experiences of a German submarine crew engaged in the "Battle of the Atlantic". Though not a financial success, the film received positive reviews and was nominated for six Academy Awards, two of which (for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay) went to Petersen himself; he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award and DGA Award. The film also introduced Jurgen Prochnow as the U-boat Captain, who became a good example of Peterson's action characters, a man at war and who dares danger and fate at sea.

After ''The NeverEnding Story'' (1984), Petersen's first full-blown Hollywood effort (although filmed at the Bavaria Film Studios complex in Germany), ''Enemy Mine'' (1985), was not a critical and box office success. He finally hit his stride in 1993 with the assassination thriller ''In the Line of Fire''. Starring Clint Eastwood as an angst-ridden presidential Secret Service guard, ''In the Line of Fire'' gave Petersen the box office clout he needed to direct another suspense thriller, ''Outbreak'' (1995), starring Dustin Hoffman. The 1997 Petersen blockbuster, ''Air Force One'', did very well at the box office, while getting a mix of opinions from movie critics. For both ''Air Force One'' and ''Outbreak'' (but not for ''The Perfect Storm'') Petersen teamed up with the German cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, who has also worked frequently with director Martin Scorsese. In another project, Petersen was the executive producer for the film ''Red Corner'', starring Richard Gere.

By 1998, Petersen was an established Hollywood director, with the power to both re-release his classic ''Das Boot'' in a new director's cut and to helm star-studded action-thrillers. As such, he was originally considered for the first movie in the ''Harry Potter'' film series, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. Petersen pulled out of the running in March 2000.

In May 2006, Petersen's $160 million epic film ''Poseidon'', a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel (and popular 1972 disaster film) ''The Poseidon Adventure'', was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $121 million.

Although hired to direct a film adaptation of ''Ender's Game'' by Orson Scott Card that was scheduled for release in 2008, he "moved on" from the project. Then producers of the film hoped for a 2009 release.

He is currently developing a live-action adaptation of the 2006 anime film ''Paprika''. He is directing a film adaptation of the science fiction novel ''Old Man's War'', with a scheduled release date of 2012.

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