Tom Tykwer

Tom Tykwer
Tykwer at the Berlin Film Festival
Born (1965-05-23) 23 May 1965 (age 59)
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, film composer
Years active1986–present
Spouse
Marie Steinmann
(m. 2009)
Children1

Tom Tykwer (German: [ˈtɪkvɐ]; born 23 May 1965)[1] 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–).

  1. ^ Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, ed. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 488. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.