Tom Tykwer

German film director, screenwriter, film producer and film composer

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Born: 1965
Works: 4

Top works

Der Krieger + die Kaiserin
Der Krieger + die Kaiserin
Lola Rennt
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Film & TV

Directing · Wuppertal, Germany

Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009).

Known for

What is an Ocean… Reconnecting the Cast and Crew of Cloud Atlas — Self - Interviewee2025
Was heißt hier Ende? Der Filmkritiker Michael Althen — Self2015
How I Learned to Love the Numbers — Self2014
Rosakinder — Self2012
On the Other Side of the Screen: 100 Years of Moviemento Cinema2009
Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte — Self2008
Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben — Self2008

Works in European collections

9 objects attributed to Tom Tykwer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Tom Tykwer ( German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. He is best known internationally for directing the thriller films Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), and The International (2009). He collaborated with The Wachowskis as co-director for the science fiction film Cloud Atlas (2012) and the Netflix series Sense8 (2015–2018), and worked on the score for Lana Wachowski's The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Tykwer is also well known as the co-creator of the internationally acclaimed German television series Babylon Berlin (2017–).

Early life