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Sönke Wortmann is a German film director and producer. Wortmann’s father was a miner. After Wortmann’s A-Levels he wanted to become a professional football player and started playing with Westfalia Herne at the third best category and with SP Vgg Erkenschwick. After three years he... gave up the idea of becoming a professional football player. One semester he studied sociology, before entering the academy for TV and film in Munich to study film directing. After spending some time at the London Royal College of Art he finished his career successfully. While studying, he worked as a taxi-driver and actor, for example in the TV series A happy family, from the channel Bayerischer Rundfunk. His debut feature film Der bewegte Mann was released in 1994. It became one of the most successful German film of the post-war era. Das Superweib was filmed, as he himself said, to prove that it is possible to make “a successful film out of a successful novel”. Der Campus was more or less accomplished on the same terms, but achieved fewer viewers. Films like Mr.
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