True diversity. Where the world of science is at home in many languages. On top of programming go in there it will be show you. Now with us our innovations magazine for any. Of us from every week and always looking to the future on d w dot com science and research for. A loop. But i hated to. Go. Hi welcome to aquino special on german director Wolfgang Pedrosa he made movie history with his anti war film dust boat before heading to hollywood to direct blockbusters Like Air Force one out. Break or the perfect storm pearson is a master of big budget action but his movies always wrestle with the real issues of our top. Gun pitocin started his career directing crime thrillers he focused on topics such as hit and run accidents blackmail and rate more than twenty five Million Viewers watched his one nine hundred seventy seven t. V. Movie heifetz likeness about a sexual relationship between a teacher and pupil. Four years later came the feature film that attracted the attention of hollywood just bought it was nominated for six oscars and although it didnt win any it did open plenty of doors for painters and. The german director began working with some of us cinemas biggest stars he made the action film air force one starring harrison ford. And. The perfect storm with George Clooney and the historical epic troy with brad pitt. But then his disaster movie poseidon ran aground at the box office capsizing paters and career. It took ten years for the director now seventy five years old to make another film and this time hes returned to germany revisiting his own comedy fear gagandeep bank from one nine hundred seventy six to twenty sixteen remake features some of the countrys biggest stars the plot involves four men taking revenge on a bank manager who has swindled them out of their savings which. Is funnier than just. Ok. Yes im here now with will computers and thank you for coming to quito. Ive interviewed a number of directors and it often is the case that directors seem to have. Very key film that they saw me when they were a child that are a huge influence on them and change somehow the way they look at movies in the me they look at life i wonder if you have that experience i mean it was a film maybe in your childhood that a particular influence on you yes it was there was one first of all i went when i was a child actor and twelve years old in the early fiftys in germany when all these American Films came to germany after the war right and i was a mesmerized by American Films i saw so many and my specialty was western of course and my guy in my film was Gary Cooper Gary Cooper and. I know. Terror stricken left him to face or kill i was impressed as a little boy to see that a man. Who is afraid. And is about to walk away when these three guys come out of jail to go and go after him and kill him that he turns around and does that anyway. Always i saw the little sweat on his forehead when he was walking alone through the streets streets and i was impressed by that i thought that as a true hero a man who is afraid but he does it anyway what is it about that that type of hero that fascinates you yeah well i like its his i think i like about its human its not like a cartoon hero its a human being and that tells us human beings like you and me or a twelve year old boy can some learn something about. You can be very harrowing and good if you overcome your fear and in films like in the line of fire for example with Clint Eastwood you see it very clearly eastwood is is you know similarly kind of nervous and sort of afraid of this markovitch guy and what might happen to him but he does it anyway he goes after him. I. Was there is bigger moral imperative behind the sort of questions that you like. Well yeah i mean. It has very much to do with the situation in germany after the war we learnt at school for example we didnt really learn about the past the puppet nazi time and so they always avoided my parents our parents they never really talked about that it was always this kind of dont look back in germany or other times it was or im clear im not explaining not that there was no moral there there was not an old understanding why and things have them in these films there was a clarity about it especially in western about what is good and what is bad what do you have to fight very clear moral compasses you can take out of these films and imagine please with youve also worked with young a whole list of the biggest stars in hollywood George ClooneyBrad Pitt Harrison Ford who surprised you the most of the of the very stars you work with and you find something about them that was more surprising. Ive was very surprised about the insecurity of Dustin Hoffman what i was surprised about is that he is very much more like coming more like like like a stage actor he had always problems with very simple things like turning around and having a special look over your shoulder and you know the typical movie star movements and he had he he was very insecure about it so you know with dustin of the big dust it off i very often had to really take years and still does that look i do it for you and i couldnt believe it yeah. Acting a thing for dust and half and to show him how to do it it was kind of embarrassed to do it but but but he like that when you look back of your quite lustrous hollywood career what are you most proud of and what are you most i dont know embarrassed or disappointed by or theres not so much disappointing things i mean i am very proud of that i did a movie that i could do and i could do it on a big scale that was perfect storm that was a concept that was very very tough to get through the movie to the studio system because it was expensive because it was the biggest storm ever shown right and the story i mean six guys on the andrea gail board who have the end as we all know die and you know we got a lot of calls from people who were saying what dont be crazy im in this cannot work this is the summer movie this is a big one hundred fifty Million Dollars movie and they all died in the knots so i said well thats the story its a true story and we either do it or we do it the way and what we can to change them. Im proud of that because it it worked we were right people went to come you know to see it and it was good the other thing what i would say is what i should probably not of dharma is poseidon the from prison. I was at that time in a honest on a on a roll youre going to believe it was amazing in the line of fire break. Air force one perfect storm troy all these films in a row of lets say in ten years were very successful as you know and one was more successful than the one before so they say welfare can do anything i mean one of us lets do this lets put given all the money will be fine again or it didnt it wasnt i should not have done that i think because it just doesnt work like that at some point you know if you fall and. So now you know. Youre the first to know everybody. Well i mean your new film is four against against the bank its your first film shot here in germany in thirty years the first film in germany in thirty years how did that happen had to happen that you came back here to do a film i always wanted to do a comedy writer my wife for example always said you have to do a comedy offer because she thought i had a sense of humor i think my wife said you know what about for against the bank the t. V. Film that you did in one nine hundred seventy six was very successful wouldnt that be a great movie and i said wow thats a good idea. But. I think it makes so much fun if its sort of the its the comedy is something where everybody can relate to everybody has some kind of quarrel and problem and some. Issues with banks. I. Was still going. Strong when he was just walk out legal before talking about. The movie that made you made you famous do you think it still is your most important porton film that youve made or your family i mean. Definitely so many directors have their one film where when they know where they know its the one its the one that changed everything for you and. The one people will talk for ever about it so im lucky enough that i have that film what was it about this book do you think. Many reasons first of all i think for the world to be forced to relate to all or even with nazis in the submarine in the beginning when the film was screened first in los angeles and it says on the very beginning it says forty from forty thousand german submarines thirty thousand died was a big supply big applause and we all thought oh my god this is not going well at the end. Of the film after two and a half hours. They all clapped and there was a standing ovation there for ever so the film turned this hostile audience around and that and that is i think a quality of the film to show that war is war everywhere its the same young people die before the. End and then specially i think the focus you you will then brought on these characters inside the captain and all these people are brought them into close together the friendship that they would die for each other its a good lesson even in the worst most horrible situations something beautiful human can happen i think that touches people when they see the film and that goes way beyond being terminal americans english whatever thats what i guess thats whats sort of what cinema can really do well and thank you so much for taking time to talk to us whether that was our keynote special with Wolfgang Petersen for more on his new film and his entire body of work you can check out our website thats all for me will be back next week until then ill see. The man. Behind. The do. Most. Everything out of necessity im concerned for their children what can i do were fighting for survival. They carry love to seventy from europe to africa. Thats the way shes pretty. By bridging the world. 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