Personal Info
Sönke Wortmann ranks among the most respected and most successful directors in Germany. After his graduation movie DREI D (1988) was nominated for a Student Oscar®, his debut feature film MAYBE… MAYBE NOT/THE TURBULENT MAN (1994) became one of the most successful German films in the 1990. The touching post-war drama THE MIRACLE OF BERN (2003) took Audience Awards in Locarno, San Francisco and Ashland and was released in cinemas around the world. The documentary DEUTSCHLAND. EIN SOMMERMÄRCHEN on the Soccer World Cup 2006 is the most successful documentary in German cinemas to date. His other highly-acclaimed films include ALONE AMONG WOMEN (1991), LITTLE SHARKS (1992), MR. BLUESMAN (1993), THE SUPERWIFE (1996), CAMPUS (1998), ST. PAULI NIGHT (1999), THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN (2000), POPE JOAN (2009), THE WEDDING TAPE (2012), WRECKED (2014), MS. MUELLER MUST GO (2014), and HOW ABOUT ADOLF? (2018).
Filmography
- Campus
- Contra
- GLORY: A TALE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITIES (RUHM)
- Hangtime
- Hardcover
- HOW ABOUT ADOLF? (VORNAME, DER)
- Lammbock (Lammbock - Alles in Handarbeit)
- LOMMBOCK
- Maybe, Maybe Not (bewegte Mann, Der)
- Miracle of Bern, The (Wunder von Bern, Das)
- MS MUELLER MUST GO (FRAU MÜLLER MUSS WEG)
- Pope Joan (Paepstin, Die)
- St. Pauli Nacht
- SUMMER AFFAIR, A (SOMMERFEST)
- Super-Wife, The (Superweib, Das)
- Treasure of the White Falcons, The (Schatz der weissen Falken, Der)
- WEDDING TAPE, THE (HOCHZEITSVIDEO, DAS)
- WRECKED (SCHOSSGEBETE)
