1. Tom Tykwer is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run, Heaven, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, and The International.
17 Facts About Tom Tykwer
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Tom Tykwer collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas and the Netflix series Sense8, and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections.
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Tom Tykwer later helped out at a local arthouse cinema in order to see more films, including those for which he was too young to buy tickets.
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Tom Tykwer moved to Berlin where he worked as a projectionist.
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In Berlin, Tom Tykwer met and befriended the filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim, who urged him to create stories from his own experience.
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Tom Tykwer suggested, for example, that Tykwer record arguments with his girlfriend, and turn them into a short film.
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Tom Tykwer made a second short film, Epilog, for which he took on personal financial debt, but he gained valuable technical film making experience.
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Tom Tykwer wrote the screenplay for, and directed, his first feature film, the psychological thriller Deadly Maria.
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In 1994, Tom Tykwer founded the production company X Filme Creative Pool with Stefan Arndt, Wolfgang Becker, and Dani Levy.
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Tom Tykwer was approached by French producers to film a short contribution to Paris, je t'aime, a film composed of 20 short films by many famous directors depicting love in Paris.
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Tom Tykwer shot the 10-minute short film, True, with Natalie Portman and Melchior Beslon.
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Tom Tykwer shot the film quickly with almost no pre-production.
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Tom Tykwer shot the film Pink Children together with 4 German directors about their mentor Rosa von Praunheim.
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Tom Tykwer later made his Hollywood debut with the big-budgeted 2009 conspiracy thriller The International, starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, which was shot in several locations ranging from Berlin, Milan, New York City, and Istanbul.
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In 2017, Tom Tykwer co-created the television series Babylon Berlin, directing and writing the screenplay; set in 1920s Berlin, the series comprised 16 episodes in its first two seasons.
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In December 2024, it was announced that Tom Tykwer's upcoming film The Light, starring Lars Eidinger and Nicolette Krebitz, would open the 75th Berlinale on February 13,2025.
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Since Winter Sleepers, the music for all of Tom Tykwer's films has been composed by Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, and Tom Tykwer.