Biography
Bernd Eichinger was a German film producer, director and screenwriter.
Known For
Complete Filmography

3096 Days
2013
Screenplay
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Bernd Eichinger erzählt...
2011
as Self
The German producer Bernd Eichinger talks about his career.

Die Superbullen
2011
Producer
Tommie and Mario are on the prowl again. But this time not through the alcohol haze of Cologne Kalk or the Ballermann Club on Mallorca but through the...

Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010
Producer
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety...

Mythos Metropolis
2010
as Self
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

Times Change You
2010
Producer
After the bestselling book comes the film about Germany's most successful rapper: authentic, provocative and radical. Despite all his successes, Bushi...
Der Regisseur Uli Edel - Fakten und Fiktion
2009
as Self
Documentary about the German director Uli Edel

Five Minutes of Heaven
2009
Thanks
The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an a...

The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
Producer, Screenplay
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the ...

Bernd & Katja Eichinger
2008
A playful moment of Bernd and his wife: While he was producing "Baader Meinhof Komplex" in Berlin.

Lissi and the Wild Emperor
2007
Thanks
The plot concerns a yeti who makes a pact with the devil to kidnap the most beautiful girl in the world. This turns out to be the Princess Lissi, who ...

Pornorama
2007
Producer
A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

Resident Evil: Extinction
2007
Producer
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fig...
Tatort Oper - Wie Filmemacher Oper machen
2007
as Self
What happens when famous directors stage an opera? Eckhart Schmidt shows successful and failed attempts.
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
2007
as Self
A cheerful, amusing and melancholic look back at the Munich film festival from the perspective of the people who make up the film festival.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
2007
Producer
The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006
Screenplay, Producer
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest pe...

DOA: Dead or Alive
2006
Producer
Four beautiful rivals at an invitation-only martial-arts tournament join forces against a sinister threat. Princess Kasumi is an aristocratic warrior ...

The Elementary Particles
2006
Producer
Based on Michel Houellebecq's controversial novel, Atomised (aka The Elementary Particles) focuses on Michael and Bruno, two very different half-broth...
Hitlers letzte Tage - Der Film "Der Untergang"
2005
as Self
Documentary about the 2004 movie 'Der Untergang' aka. 'Downfall'

Fantastic Four
2005
Producer
During a space voyage, four scientists are altered by cosmic rays: Reed Richards gains the ability to stretch his body; Sue Storm can become invisible...
Electro Ghetto
2004
Screenplay

Downfall
2004
Producer, Screenplay
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking fr...

Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004
Executive Producer
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have tur...
Musen, Macht und Glamour - Die Welt der Maximilianstraße
2004
as Self
Documentary about the Maximilianstraße in Munich.

Die Klasse von '99 - Schule war gestern, Leben ist jetzt
2003
Producer
The story of a group of contemporary young people, growing up in well-to-do small-town

Werner - Gekotzt wird später!
2003
Producer
Werner, Andi and Eckat play dice to determine the next king of the trio. When Werner is crowned king, he decides for all of them to skip work and star...

The Making of Resident Evil
2002
as Self
A behind the scenes look into the making of resident evil where the cast and crew breaks down the process.

Resident Evil
2002
Producer
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from h...

Ants in the Pants 2
2002
Producer
In the sequel of "Ants in the Pants" we again meet Flo and his friends.

666: In Bed with the Devil
2002
as Bernd Eichinger
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperat...

666: In Bed with the Devil
2002
Producer
Frank Faust is a born loser. At some point it even becomes too much for his great love, Jennifer, who leaves him and flees to Munich. Frank's desperat...

Slap Her... She's French
2002
Executive Producer
Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular ...

Nowhere in Africa
2001
Producer
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel ref...

Manitou's Shoe
2001
Producer
Abahachi, Chief of the Apache Indians, and his blood brother Ranger maintain peace and justice in the Wild West. One day, Abahachi needs to take up a ...

The Calling
2000
Executive Producer
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behav...

No More School
2000
Producer
The last three weeks of school life have begun: After the Abitur, Germany's leaving certificate, the friends and schoolmates of Gymnasium Kerkheim (Ke...

The Devil and Ms. D
1999
Director, Screenplay
Is he really the devil incarnate, as he claims? Or is he a dangerous weirdo who uses his stories to get the best out of women? Because in any case he ...

Werner - Volles Rooäää!!!
1999
Producer
A wicked investor wants Werner's residential area razed to the ground in order to build a shopping center. However, building tycoon Günzelsen has not ...

Am I Beautiful?
1998
Producer
Between Munich and Seville, the destinies of sixteen characters intertwine and intersect, missing each other or colliding head-on. They are all, witho...

Wrongfully Accused
1998
Producer
Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue's husband with her. Mr. Goodhue is found murdered ...

Ballermann 6
1997
Producer
Tommie and Mario travel to Mallorca in search of a vacation fueled by alcohol and the desire for women and parties.

Prince Valiant
1997
Executive Producer
An Arthurian legend of young Prince Valiant, son of the King of Scandia. After the King is exiled by an evil leader, the Prince travels to Camelot to ...

Die drei Mädels von der Tankstelle
1997
Producer
Wigald, a spoiled offspring, is no good with women. He finds solace with a psychiatrist and love with his poodle. When his mother dies, he is only all...

Smilla's Sense of Snow
1997
Producer
Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla unco...

It Happened in Broad Daylight
1997
Screenplay, Producer

Charleys Tante
1996
Producer
Investment advisor Stefan Lohmann has defrauded master butcher Waldemar Pückler of five million euros. He therefore wants to travel to Munich to meet ...

Die Halbstarken
1996
Producer, Writer

A Girl Called Rosemarie
1996
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she enc...

Werner: Eat My Dust!!!
1996
Producer
Because of a bet, Werner and his friend have to construct the fastest vehicle to win a race, because life depends on it.
Hollywood, Germany - Die amerikanische Herausforderung
1996
as Self
Documentary by Eckhart Schmidt.

The Superwife
1996
Producer
Franziska is a romantically inclined housewife with two children and a husband who spends most of his time traveling around the world and working as a...

And Nobody Weeps For Me
1996
Producer
Between 1924 and 1934, six children grow up in an apartment building in the Munich suburbs. Among them is the rather inconspicuous and melancholy Leo ...

Voll Normaaal
1994
Producer
Tommie is the absolute loser in his home district of Cologne-Kalk: no money, no apartment of his own, no girlfriend. In the exhaust workshop where he ...

Maybe... Maybe Not
1994
Producer
The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of livin...

The Fantastic Four
1994
Executive Producer
When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid astronauts are given incredible powers. They decide to form a superhero group called the Fantastic Four to ...

The House of the Spirits
1993
Producer
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

The Cement Garden
1993
Executive Producer
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to ...

Body of Evidence
1993
Producer
When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him...
Perry Rhodan - Der ewige Kosmonaut
1993
as Self
When the first adventure of the cosmonaut appeared in 1961 with "Unternehmen Stardust", not even the two German authors, Clark Darlton and K.H. Scheer...

Salt on Our Skin
1992
Producer
A Scottish woman who attends school in Paris comes home for the summer and helps take in the straw, where she meets an attractive and simple man. They...

Four Junior Detectives
1992
Producer
The four young snoopers Tim, Karl, Kloesschen and Gaby by chance discover a hidden cave near an old castle. In it there's a board that seems to descri...

Manta, Manta
1991
Producer
A not so clever guy called Bertie with a Opel Manta (a low budget European sports-coupe from the '80s) gets competition in a street race from a guy wi...

Werner and the Wizard of Booze
1990
Producer
Comic artist Brösel trades a magic pen that helps him come up with funny stories for the promise to fulfill one of Rumpelstiltskin's wishes. The resul...

Fire, Ice & Dynamite
1990
Producer
Action-comedy about a wealthy man who fakes suicide for the amusement of watching his family and creditors compete for his wealth. Many cameo appearan...

Pictures of Europe
1990
as Self
What makes European cinema so special? Find out in Paul Joyce’s feature-length documentary, Pictures of Europe, which examines the differences between...

Last Exit to Brooklyn
1989
Producer
A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute...

La rosa dei nomi
1987
as Self
The Abbey of Crime: Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose'
1986
as Self
A German TV documentary that chronicles the daily rehearsals, the filming and all the behind the scenes of Jean-Jacques Annaud's classic "The Name of ...

The Name of the Rose
1986
Producer
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under my...
King Kongs Faust
1985
as Produzent
Berlin Film Fest 1984. The best place for every cinema fan. Everyone wants to be in on the festival, but that may be really difficult, if one has no a...

The NeverEnding Story
1984
as Man next to Man who drops Milk (uncredited)
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverendi...

The NeverEnding Story
1984
Producer
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverendi...

Kehraus
1983
Co-Producer
Ferdinand Weitel, a forklift driver, is desperate: Insurance agent Arno von Mehling, a true sales talent, has had contracts signed in record amounts. ...
Die Ortliebschen Frauen
1981
Producer
A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed ...

Sting in the Flesh
1981
Producer
Ines and Hans try to save their crumbling marriage with a vacation trip. With three children, the grandmother, and some hamsters in the overloaded car...

Christiane F.
1981
Producer
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and ...

Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Producer
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the bu...

Hitler: A Film from Germany
1978
Producer
A structure-free, four-part examination of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Each part explores a different topic, from Hitler's cult of personali...

Good-for-Nothing
1978
Executive Producer
A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he ...

The Consequence
1977
Producer
Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for Martin, one of the prison inmates. After Martin is released, they try to build a relationship and a life...

The Wild Duck
1976
Producer
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, w...

Dear Fatherland Be at Peace
1976
Producer
1964 in Berlin, not long after the raise of the wall that separated the city: ex-prisoner Bruno is chosen by the eastern secret agency to be sent west...

Wrong Move
1975
Producer
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. O...
Perahim - die zweite Chance
1974
Writer
After eleven years of solitary confinement, Perahim, convicted of murdering a police officer, is released early from prison after exceptionally good b...
Die Eltern
1974
Writer
Ann, a ten-year-old girl, becomes the sole heir of millions from her grandmother. Ann's parents, who are short of money and have lost all hope of a br...