Michael Verhoeven

Michael Verhoeven (born 13 July 1938) is a German film director.

Michael Verhoeven
Michael Verhoeven in 2009
Born (1938-07-13) 13 July 1938
Berlin, Germany
OccupationFilm director
Years active1967–present
Spouse(s)
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m. 1966)
Children2, including Simon Verhoeven
Parent(s)Paul Verhoeven

Life and work

Verhoeven is the son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not to be confused with the Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven). He married actress Senta Berger in 1966; their sons are actor-director Simon Verhoeven (born 1972) and actor Luca Verhoeven (born 1979). Together, the couple have a production company to make films. The 1970 anti-Vietnam War film, o.k. was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival, but led to a scandal that forced the collapse of the festival without the awarding of any prizes.[1]

In 1982, Verhoeven released Die weiße Rose (The White Rose), which, with the Best Foreign film nomination of Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl) in 1990, cemented his reputation as an important political contributor to German film. Along with his films Mutters Courage (My Mother's Courage) and documentary Der unbekannte Soldat (The Unknown Soldier), they have been hailed as an unstinting examination of Germany's Nazi period. In 1992, he was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

Awards

Selected filmography

Director

Film

Television

  • Der Kommissar: Dr. Meinhardts trauriges Ende (1970, TV series episode)
  • Tatort: Kressin und der Mann mit dem gelben Koffer (1972, TV series episode)
  • Ein unheimlich starker Abgang (1973) – based on a play by Harald Sommer
  • Krempoli – Ein Platz für wilde Kinder (1975, TV series)
  • Die Herausforderung (1975) – screenplay by Elke Heidenreich and Bernd Schroeder
  • Bier und Spiele (1977, TV series) – screenplay by Bernd Schroeder
  • Das Männerquartett (1978) – based on a novel by Leonhard Frank
  • 1982: Gutenbach (1978) – screenplay by Michael Mansfeld
  • Verführungen (1979) – screenplay by Elke Heidenreich
  • Freundinnen: Edith und Marlene (1979, TV series episode) – screenplay by Elke Heidenreich and Irene Rodrian
  • Am Südhang (1980) – screenplay by Manfred Bieler, based on a novella by Eduard von Keyserling
  • Die Ursache (1980) – based on a novella and a play by Leonhard Frank
  • Die Mutprobe (1982)
  • Das Tor zum Glück (1984)
  • Stinkwut (1986) – based on a play by Fitzgerald Kusz
  • Gundas Vater (1987)
  • Gegen die Regel (1987) – screenplay by Daniel Christoff
  • Ignaz Semmelweis – Arzt der Frauen (1988) – biographical film about Ignaz Semmelweis
  • Die schnelle Gerdi (1989, TV series)
  • Schlaraffenland (1990)
  • Lilli Lottofee (1992, TV series)
  • Eine unheilige Liebe (1993)
  • Zimmer mit Frühstück (2000) – screenplay by Conny Lens
  • Enthüllung einer Ehe (2000) – screenplay with Nicole Walter-Lingen
  • Die schnelle Gerdi, second season (2004, TV series)
  • Tatort: Die Spieler (2005, TV series episode)
  • Bloch: Vergeben, nicht vergessen (2008, TV series episode)
  • Bloch: Heißkalte Seele (2012, TV series episode)
  • Bloch: Die Lavendelkönigin (2013, TV series episode)
  • Glückskind (2014) – based on a novel by Steven Uhly

Documentary and short films

  • Tische (1970)
  • Bonbons (1971)
  • Coiffeur (1973)
  • Liebe Melanie (1983) – film about Melanie Horeschowsky
  • Das Mädchen und die Stadt oder: Wie es wirklich war (1990)
  • The Legend of Mrs. Goldman and the Almighty God (1996) – with George Tabori
  • George Tabori – Theater ist Leben (1998) – film about George Tabori
  • Der Fall Liebl (2001)
  • Die kleine Schwester – Die weiße Rose: Ein Vermächtnis (2002)
  • Der unbekannte Soldat (The Unknown Soldier, 2006)
  • Menschliches Versagen (Human Failure, 2008)
  • The Second Execution of Romell Broom (2012)

Producer

Actor
gollark: If you only have 100 bees and 200 different people/organizations want a bee (or multiple bees!) for something, you can't just say "give them to everyone who needs one".
gollark: Your resource allocation thing, though - you don't seem to actually realize what "scarce" means?
gollark: So if you like potatoism, say, you can go live in a potatoist society somewhere and not bother antipotatoists. The issue with *that* is external costs - how do you handle those, without some sort of giant overarching state?
gollark: And live there.
gollark: Well, yes, one of the things I'm interested in would be some mechanism for allowing people to choose their preferred societal structure somehow.

References
  1. "Berlinale: 1970 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
  2. "Berlinale: 1992 Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 27 March 2011.
  3. "Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
  4. Bayerischer Filmpreis – "Pierrot" Archived 2009-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Ministerpräsident Stoiber verleiht Bayerischen Filmpreis 2006 Archived 2012-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, press release (in German)
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