Wolfgang Becker: A film legend leaves the stage in the world!

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Wolfgang Becker, der berühmte Regisseur von "Good Bye, Lenin!", ist am 13. Dezember 2024 im Alter von 70 Jahren gestorben.
Wolfgang Becker, the famous director of "Good Bye, Lenin!", Died on December 13, 2024 at the age of 70. (Symbolbild/MB)

The well -known director Wolfgang Becker died on Thursday at the age of 70 after a serious illness. This was communicated by the PR agency Just Publicity on behalf of his family. Becker leaves an important legacy in the German film industry, especially through his works "Life is a construction site" (1997) and the widely celebrated "Good Bye, Lenin!" (2003), for which he received numerous awards, including the European and the German Film Award and the French César, such as rbb24 reported.

Wolfgang Becker was born in Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia in 1954. He started his studies at the Free University of Berlin and continued at the German Film and Television Academy. His final film "Butterflies" (1988) has already been honored with several prizes. In the 1990s he founded the production company X films together with Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy and the producer Stefan Arndt and was one of the founding members of the German Film Academy in 2003, which awards the German Film Award, like Department.

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