Wolfgang Becker (director, born 1954)

Wolfgang Becker
Becker at the Berlinale in 2020
Born(1954-06-22)22 June 1954
Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Died12 December 2024(2024-12-12) (aged 70)
Berlin, Germany
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter

Wolfgang Becker (22 June 1954 – 12 December 2024) was a German film director and screenwriter, best known to international audiences for his work Good Bye, Lenin! (2003). He was a co-founder of the production company X Filme Creative Pool, which produced his first successful feature film, Das Leben ist eine Baustelle, in 1997.