Jürgen Prochnow [IPA: 'jʏɐgən 'pʀɔxnoː] (born June 10, 1941 in Berlin) is a German actor. His most well-known roles internationally have been as submarine Captain Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock in Das Boot (1981), Duke Leto Atreides in Dune and the villain Maxwell Dent in Beverly Hills Cop II.
Prochnow was born in Berlin, Germany; he has an older brother, Dieter. He studied acting at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. Thanks to his on-screen intensity and his fluency in English, he has become one of the most successful German actors in Hollywood. He portrayed Arnold Schwarzenegger in a film about the actor's political career in California, entitled See Arnold Run. He also stars in the Broken Lizard film Beerfest.
He was facially scarred (second and third degree burns) following a stunt accident during the filming of Dune. One scene called for Duke Leto (Jürgen Prochnow) to be strapped to a black stretcher and drugged. During one take, a high-powered bulb positioned above Prochnow exploded due...
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Beerfest is a beer-themed comedy film by the comedy group Broken Lizard released 2006. Along with the regular members of Broken Lizard, other actors who appear in the movie include Mo'Nique, Will Forte, MC Gainey, Cloris Leachman, Eric Christian Olsen, Daniel "Ducky" Poyner, Jürgen Prochnow, Blanchard Ryan, and Donald Sutherland.Beerfest was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.The plot begins with two Coloradan brothers, Jan (Paul Soter) and Todd (Erik Stolhanske) Wolfhouse at the funeral of their German born immigrant grandfather Johann von Wolfhausen (an uncredited Donald Sutherland) who founded the family business, the Schnitzengiggle (A play on "shits and giggles") Tavern, a sausage house. They learn from their great-grandmother (Cloris Leachman) that they must travel to Munich to fulfill the centuries old Wolfhausen family tradition and spread their grandfather's ashes. Jan and Todd eagerly undertake this family duty when they learn that this tradition must be completed during the
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The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 feature film, which is based on the bestselling 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It was one of the most anticipated films of 2006, and was previewed at the opening night of the Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2006. The Da Vinci Code then entered major release in many other countries on May 18 2006 with its first showing in the United States on May 19 2006.
Because of some controversial interpretations of Christian history in both the book and movie, they were criticized by the Roman Catholic Church. Some bishops even urged members to boycott the film. Many of the early showings were accompanied by protesters outside the movie theaters, and early critical reviews were decidedly mixed. However, in its opening weekend, the film earned over US$224 million worldwide, second only to the opening of 2005's Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. It is the second highest grossing movie of 2006 worldwide — having reached US$756,270,019 as of November 2...,
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Wing Commander is a science fiction film based on the Wing Commander video game series. It was directed by Chris Roberts, the creator of the game series, and stars Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow and David Warner. In the United States, the film is rated PG-13 for sexual references and sci-fi action/violence. The movie borrows heavily from naval warfare films such as Das Boot, going so far as to include a scene where the Tiger Claw is "depth-charged". Principal photography occurred in Luxembourg and post-production was done in Austin, Texas. The film was a financial failure, returning an estimated $11.5 million in US theaters on a budget of $30 million. Set one month before Wing Commander, the story unfolds in the middle of an interstellar war between the Terran Confederation and the cat-like alien Kilrathi. The movie tells the story of Christopher Blair and Todd "Maniac" Marshall, young pilots assigned to the carrier Tiger Claw,...,
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The Replacement Killers is a 1998 film, directed by Antoine Fuqua in his feature film debut. It stars Chow Yun Fat and Mira Sorvino. The film was Chow's American debut, but not his first shot on American soil; he previously appeared in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow 2, which was filmed partially in New York.
The film earned $8 million during its opening weekend in the U.S. and a total of $19.2 million in U.S. box officeAn "Extended Edition" DVD of the film with approximately 11 minutes of additional footage was released on April 25, 2006.
Among Rotten Tomatoes critics, only 10 of 28 (36%) rated it "Fresh", though, the website's "Cream of the Crop" reviews were 60% favorable. Roger Ebert, included in the latter group, liked the film's "simplicity of form and its richness of visuals." He continued:
Stephen Holden, in a review for The New York Times, was less impressed, calling it a "seamless fusion of Hong Kong action-adventure style and cool, Los Angeles street chic...that is otherwise...,
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In the Mouth of Madness (also known as John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness) is a 1995 horror film (originally intended for a 1994 release) directed by John Carpenter and written by Michael de Luca, who was at the time in charge of New Line Cinema.
The film is the third installment in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy". It is preceded by The Thing and Prince of Darkness.
The story follows private investigator John Trent, played by Sam Neill, whose speciality is insurance fraud. He is called in by his client to investigate the disappearance of a phenomenally popular horror novelist named Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow). Cane has supposedly vanished as his most recent novel is nearing its deadline and his publisher (played by Charlton Heston) wants to retrieve his company's property. Trent thinks the whole thing is a publicity stunt for the new novel.
Trent, along with Cane's editor Linda Styles (played by Julie Carmen), eventually tracks the writer down to the remote New...,
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The Seventh Sign is a 1988 film written by Clifford and Ellen Green and directed by Carl Schultz. Signs of the apocalypse are appearing, along with a mysterious wanderer. Father Lucci (played by Peter Friedman) is the Vatican official investigating them. He dismisses the occurrences as natural, but Abby Quinn, a young American woman (played by Demi Moore), believes that they are real.
In the film, Jürgen Prochnow portrays Jesus' return to Earth in the year 1988 to judge humanity. The final judgement is averted by an act of faith which prevents the final sign of the apocalypse from occurring. In the film, through a flashback, Prochnow also portrays the original Jesus on the eve of his crucifixion. Father Lucci is revealed to be Cartaphilus, a Roman Centurion and Pilate's porter who struck Jesus before his death and was sentenced to wander the Earth until Christ returned to judge mankind. The Lucci-Cartaphilus character is a combination of the Longinus and the Wandering Jew legends....
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Dune is a 1984 science fiction film written and directed by David Lynch, based on the 1965 Frank Herbert novel of the same name. The film stars Kyle MacLachlan as Paul Atreides, and includes an ensemble of well-known American, Latin American, and European actors in supporting roles, including Sting, Jose Ferrer, Virginia Madsen, Linda Hunt, Patrick Stewart, Max von Sydow, and Jürgen Prochnow, among others. It was filmed at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City and included a soundtrack by the band Toto. As in the novel, the central plot concerns a young man foretold in prophecy as the "Kwisatz Haderach" who will protect the titular desert planet from the malevolent House Harkonnen and save the universe from evil.After the success of the novel, attempts to adapt Dune for a film began as early as 1971. A lengthy process of what is known in the film industry as development hell followed throughout the 1970s, during which directors such as David Lean, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Ridley Scott...,
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The Keep is a 1983 horror film directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow , and a dubbed[citation needed]Ian McKellen. It was released by Paramount Pictures. The story is based on the F. Paul Wilson novel of the same name, published in 1981 (1982 in the United Kingdom).The video run time of 1:37 is thought to be a studio-ordered cut against the wishes of Michael Mann. His cut of choice is speculated to be in the three to four hour range.[citation needed]Wilson himself has expressed his distaste for the film version publicly, writing in the short story collection The Barren (and Others) that it is, "Visually intriguing, but otherwise utterly incomprehensible." When talk of a DVD release of the film came about in 2004, Wilson and a friend recorded a caustic CD commentary to go along with it, which he teased to his official mailing list [1], "The F File", although the CD appears to have never actually been released.A board game based on the film was...,
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Das Boot (IPA pronunciation: /das boːt/, German for The Boat) is a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen, adapted from a novel of the same name by Lothar-Günther Buchheim. Hans-Joachim Krug, former first officer on U-219, served as a consultant, as did Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, the captain of the real U-96.
The movie has a strong anti-war message. One of Petersen's stated goals was to guide the audience through "a journey to the end of reason" (the film's German tagline), showing "what war is all about." Petersen heightened suspense by very rarely showing any external views of the submarine unless it is running on the surface and relying on sounds to convey action outside the boat, thus showing the audience only the claustrophobic interior the crew would see.
The original 1981 version cost DM 32 million (USD$21.9 million in 2007 dollars) to make; it was at the time the most expensive film in the history of German cinema. The director's meticulous attention to detail...,
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Jürgen Prochnow was born in Berlin, Germany
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