Director. Writer. Studied at the Deutsches Institut fuer Film und
Fernsehen (DIFF) in Munich, Germany, as well as at the Institut des
Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques (IDHEC) in Paris, France. In 1969 he
founded the production company Hallelujah Film together with
Volker Schlöndorff.
Since 1992 he is co-manager of the Babelsberg studios in Potsdam,
Germany (former UFA/DEFA).
