Bernd Eichinger Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter, Co-Executive Producer

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Resident Evil: Extinction

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oded Fehr, Ali Larter, Iain Glen, Ashanti

Synopsis: Director Russell Mulcahy takes over for the third chapter in the Resident Evil film franchise, which finds genetically altered Alice (Milla Jovovich) joining forces with Carlos (Oded Fehr) and L.J. (Mike Epps) to take down the Umbrella Corporation once and for all. Upon emerging from her hideout Read More

9/21/07
DOA: Dead or Alive

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Devon Aoki, Kane Kosugi

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong action director and choreographer Corey Yuen brings Tecmo's best-selling video-game franchise to the big screen in a martial arts extravaganza featuring an impressive quartet of female fighters including Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and Holly Valance. Tina (Read More

6/15/07
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: The world's most famous team of astronauts-cum-superheroes returns in the effects-heavy sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. As the story opens, Sue Storm, AKA The Invisible Girl (Jessica Alba), and Reed Richards, AKA Mr. Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd) prepare for their upcoming Read More

6/15/07
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Dustin Hoffman, Karoline Herfurth

Synopsis: An obsessive French perfumer with a highly developed olfactory sense and an all-consuming drive to capture the essence of love eventually resorts to murder in his unrepentant quest to find the key ingredient for his recipe in director Tom Tykwer's adaptation of author Patrick Suskind's Read More

12/27/06
The Elementary Particles

Crew: Producer

Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Ulmen, Martina Gedeck, Franka Potente, Nina Hoss

Synopsis: With his bittersweet, German-language tragicomedy The Elementary Particles, writer-director Oskar Roehler brings to the screen Michel Houellebecq's popular seriocomic novel of two ill-adjusted siblings. Christian Ullmen and Moritz Bleibtreu portray, respectively, Michael and Bruno, half brothers Read More

2006
Fantastic Four

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon

Synopsis: A handful of heroes become superheroes under unlikely circumstances in this action drama adapted from the long-running Marvel comic book series. Four astronauts are on a mission aboard a new experimental spacecraft when they are unexpectedly exposed to a massive dose of gamma rays. The accident Read More

7/8/05
Downfall

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Juliane Köhler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes

Synopsis: The last ten days of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime are seen through the eyes of a young woman in his employ in this historical drama from Germany. Traudl Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) was 22 years old when, in the fall of 1942, she was hired to be personal secretary to Adolf Hitler (Bruno Ganz). Read More

2/18/05
Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur

Synopsis: One of the only survivors of a man-made plague joins forces with a team of private warriors in a bid to save what's left of the Earth in this sequel to Resident Evil, the big-screen adaptation of the popular video game. Picking up where the first film left off, Resident Evil: Apocalypse finds Read More

9/10/04
Resident Evil

Crew: Producer

Actors: Milla Jovovich, Oscar Pearce, Indra Ové, Anna Bolt, Joseph May, Eric Mabius, Michelle Rodriguez

Synopsis: The director of Mortal Kombat (1995) adapts another popular video game for the big screen with this gory action thriller. Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez star as Alice and Rain, two members of a commando team assigned to infiltrate the Hive, an underground research laboratory owned by the Read More

3/15/02
She Gets What She Wants

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Trent Ford, Michael McKean, Julie White

Synopsis: Starla Grady (Jane McGregor), the most popular girl at Splendona High School in Splendona, TX, is on top of the world. That is, at least, until foreign-exchange student Genevieve LePlouff (Piper Perabo) moves in with Starla's family. Starla's parents had hoped that Genevieve's tutoring would help Read More

1/31/02
Sass

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ben Becker, Jürgen Vogel, Henry Huebchen, Frank Sieckel, Julia Richter

Synopsis: Based on the exploits of two criminal brothers who eluded the authorities as they embarked on an ever more daring series of complex robberies, director Carlo Rola's tense crime drama follows the brothers as they steal their way through the Berlin of the 1920s. As burglars and safecrackers, Franz Read More

2002
Nowhere in Africa

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthais Habich, Sidede Onyulo, Lea Kurka, Karoline Eckertz, Regine Zimmermann

Synopsis: A family on the run for their lives finds themselves in a beautiful but utterly unfamiliar world in this drama based on the autobiographical novel by Stefanie Zweig. Walter Redlich (Merab Ninidze) is a successful Jewish lawyer living in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Aware of the Read More

12/27/01
The Mists of Avalon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall

Synopsis: This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of Read More

2001
The Calling

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Lots of women get the feeling that their boyfriends become different people after they've married them, but one finds herself dealing with a much bigger problem than leaving socks around the house or not taking out the trash in this supernatural thriller. Kristie (Laura Harris) is a sweet but Read More

2000
Harte Jungs

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tobias Schenke, Mina Tander

Synopsis: The German answer to American Pie (1999), this teen sex comedy explores the complications that arise after a young man's penis begins speaking to him. When Florian (Tobias Schenke) is paired with his gorgeous classmate Leonie (Mina Tander) for a school play, his garrulous organ wakes him up one Read More

2000
A Girl Called Rose Marie

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nina Hoss, Heiner Lauterbach, Mathieu Carrière, Horst Krause, Hannelore Elsner

Synopsis: A remake of the highly-regarded 1958 film Das Maedchen Rosemarie (released as Rosemary in the U.S.), this fact-based drama follows the rise and fall of a German beauty who went from ex-convict to courtesan of some of Germany's most powerful men to the victim of an unsolved murder. The story begins Read More

10/15/99
Der Grosse Bagarozy

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Til Schweiger, Corinna Harfouch, Thomas Heinze, Sonja Kerskes, Christine Neubauer

Synopsis: It's said that love can change a man, but one woman finds herself wondering just how powerful love might be in this comedy. Cora Dulz (Corinna Harfouch) is a psychiatrist who begins working with Stanislaus Nagy (Til Schweiger), a good looking but mysterious man who is obsessed with the late Read More

1999
Der Campus

Crew: Producer

Actors: Heiner Lauterbach, Axel Milberg, Sibylle Canonica, Barbara Rudnik, Sandra Speichert

Synopsis: In this German comedy-drama, adapted from a Dietrich Schwanitz novel, Hamburg sociology professor Hanno Hackmann (Heiner Lauterbach) pleases his social-climbing wife Gabrielle (Sibylle Canonica) when he reveals he intends to compete against corrupt Schacht (Rudolf Kowalski) for position of Read More

1998
Bin ich Schön?

Crew: Producer

Actors: Senta Berger, Gottfried John, Otto Sander, Franka Potente, Anica Dobra

Synopsis: One of Germany's most important female directors, Doris Dörrie chose the subject of the universal quest for happiness for the film Bin ich Schön?. Set in Spain and Germany, the film interlaces individual stories of broken hearts and broken dreams with aspirations of new beginnings. On a hot Read More

1998
Wrongfully Accused

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Richard Crenna, Kelly LeBrock, Melinda McGraw, Michael York

Synopsis: Pat Proft directed this satire on The Fugitive with a plot parody of the 1993 Harrison Ford movie, which in turn was inspired by the 1963-67 ABC television series with David Janssen. Violinist Ryan Harrison (Leslie Nielsen) romances the wife (Kelly Le Brock) of his benefactor (Michael York), a man Read More

1998
Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Actors: Til Schweiger, Jan Josef Liefers, Thierry van Werveke, Moritz Bleibtreu, Huub Stapel

Synopsis: Two terminal patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway in this German road movie, a popular success in Germany. When cancer victim Rudi (Jan Josef Liefers) meets Martin (Til Schweiger), who has a brain tumor, they knock back tequila one night and decide to head north to experience Read More

1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Julia Ormond stars as Copenhagen resident Smilla Jasperson, a reclusive, half-Inuit scientist who befriends a neglected Inuit boy who lives in her building. Arriving home from work one day, Smilla is mortified to learn that the boy has died in a fall from the building's roof. Suspicious because Read More

1997
Das Superweib

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This German farce has fun parodying the local filmmaking industry and some its more popular stars as it tells the riotous tale of a neglected, lonely Munich housewife who writes a tawdry best-selling account of her sexual past. The situation begins when Franziska, the wife tires of hanging around Read More

1996
Es geschah am hellichten Tag

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joachim Krol, Barbara Rudnik, Axel Milberg, Judith Thayenthal, Heino Ferch

1996
Fantastic Four

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Carl Ciarfalio, Joseph Culp, Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith

Synopsis: Unreleased to the general public and infamous for its poor quality within geek circles, this Roger Corman adaptation of the Marvel Comics supergroup is an interesting cult item that ranks up there with the dismal Captain America feature and the cheap Hulk TV movies. The story of the film goes back Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 4: Invasion of the Coast - The First English Settlements

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Hosted by Kevin Costner and narrated by Gregory Harrison, the historical documentary 500 Nations, Volume 4: Invasion of the Coast - The First English Settlements portrays America's original inhabitants before and after the Europeans arrived. The film begins in the Arctic where the Inuit culture Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 5: Cauldron of War - Iroquois Democracy and the American Revolution

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Synopsis: This documentary is part of an eight part series that explores the story of the First Americans. The series is produced and hosted by Kevin Costner. In this episode, the origins and development of the French and Indian War are examined. The English and French fought for economic control of the New Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 7: Roads Across the Plains - Struggle for the West

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Synopsis: This documentary is part seven in an eight part series, produced by Kevin Costner, on the First Americans. This episode examines the fate of the Plains Indians, with the arrival of white invaders during the gold rushes in California and Colorado. The Sioux, or Lakota, Nation is particularly noted Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 8: Attack on Culture - I Will Fight No More Forever

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Synopsis: This is the final volume in the set of videos produced by Kevin Costner, star of Dances With Wolves, that chronicles the history of the Native Americans. The many battles waged by the first settlers of this country appeared to never end as host Gregory Harrison recalls the travails of the late Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 6: Removal - War and Exile in the East

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Synopsis: This film is part of an eight-tape series chronicling the history and culture of North and Central American Indians. The series is produced and hosted by Kevin Costner and explores the many cultures that comprise the indigenous heritage of the Americas. In this episode, the subject is the Indian Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 3: Clash of Cultures - The People Who Met Columbus

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Hosted by Kevin Costner and narrated by Gregory Harrison, the historical documentary 500 Nations, Vol. 3: Clash of Cultures - The People Who Met Columbus is part of an eight-part series that portrays America's original inhabitants. The film provides an in-depth look at Columbus' arrival in the New Read More

1994
500 Nations [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Synopsis: Originally shown as a CBS miniseries, the eight-part 500 Nations program was directed by Jack Leustig and executive produced by Academy award-winner Kevin Costner. The documentary program traced the history of the Native American tribes of North and Central America, from the centuries of Read More

1994
Der bewegte Mann

Crew: Producer

Actors: Til Schweiger, Katja Riemann, Joachim Krol, Rufus Beck, Armin Rohde

Synopsis: Much of the dialog in this very funny German film was taken directly from the two gay comic books by underground cartoonist Ralf Koenig on which the movie was based. Though the comics were written from a gay perspective, the film is slanted towards heterosexual couples. It tells the story of Axel Read More

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 2: Mexico - The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

1994
500 Nations, Vol. 1: The Ancestors - Early Cultures of North America

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Synopsis: Hosted by Kevin Costner and narrated by Gregory Harrison, the historical documentary 500 Nations, Vol. 1: The Ancestors - Early Cultures of North America portrays America's original inhabitants. The film begins with a segment on the massacre at Wounded Knee, then flashes back in time for a look at Read More

1994
The House of the Spirits

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: Bille August directed this film version of the Isabel Allende novel, featuring a cast that includes Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. The story is a sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America Read More

1993
Body of Evidence

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joe Mantegna, Julianne Moore

Synopsis: Madonna plays Rebecca Carlson, a sex bomb who parades naked in front of the open windows of her houseboat at all hours while the lobstermen catch crabs. This entry in the Basic Instinct sweepstakes poses the question: If love hurts, does sex kill? The judge and jury certainly want to find out when Read More

1993
Desire

Crew: Producer

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Vincent D'Onofrio, Claudine Auger

Synopsis: Greta Scacchi plays a famous feminist activist, while Vincent D'Onofrio portrays a humble Scots fisherman in this film from director Andrew Birkin. Despite the obvious ideological chasm between them, the two fall in love. The couple spend the rest of the film running away from commitment, only to Read More

1993
The Cement Garden

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Andrew N. Robertson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Sinéad Cusack, Alice Coulthard, Ned Birkin

Synopsis: Ian McEwan's disturbing novel is given a chilly shimmer in this film adaptation by Andrew Birkin. The film takes place in a concrete slab of a house situated on the outskirts of an English town. The father (Hanns Zischer) is a consumptive creep, while the mother (Sinead Cusack) is a sweet and Read More

1993
The Neverending Story

Crew: Producer

Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Moses Gunn, Patricia Hayes

Synopsis: Wolfgang Petersen adapted Michael Ende's children's story for this charming fantasy film that spawned several sequels. Bastian (Barret Oliver) is dealing with his mother's recent death. His father (Gerald McRaney) is an imperious sort who continually lambastes Bastian for daydreaming and falling Read More

2/8/91
Last Exit to Brooklyn

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

5/2/90
Werner - Beinhart!

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ludger Pistor, Meret Becker

Synopsis: Werner is a cult-hero among young Germans; he is the opposite of the dutiful, work-oriented model usually promulgated to them. Intead, he roars swiftly through the city on his highly customized motorcycle, cleverly outwitting the traffic policemen whose paths he crosses, while he picks up yet Read More

1990
Me and Him

Crew: Producer

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Kelly Bishop, Carey Lowell, Craig T. Nelson, Kim Flowers

Synopsis: Loosely based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, Me and Him concerns an architect (Griffin Dunne) whose penis begins giving him advice on business and love. It urges him to leave his wife and seduce a series of co-workers and acquaintances. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

8/4/89
The Name of the Rose

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Michel Lonsdale, Ron Perlman, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., William Hickey

Synopsis: Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring Sean Connery as a Sherlock Holmes-esque Franciscan monk called William of Baskerville. When a murder occurs at a secluded Benedictine Abbey, William Read More

9/24/86
King Kongs Faust

Actors: Leonard Lansink, Wolfgang Langsfeld

Synopsis: In an amusing spoof on the world of film aficionados and scholars, novice director Heiner Stadler has come up with a clever story of film intrigue and deception, all in the name of saving face. The chain of events begins with an ambitious film critic sitting in on a screening of a 1920s movie Read More

1985
Drei Gegen Drei

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stephan Remmler, Gert "Kralle" Krawinkel, Peter Behrens, Sunnyi Melles, Ralf Wolter

Synopsis: In a failed attempt at comedy, the German pop group called The Trio do double duty in this film about double-takes -- each member of the Trio looks exactly like a dictator in Latin America. Once the dictators catch on to this coincidence, they develop a scheme to safely get their hands on the Read More

1985
Christiane F.

Crew: Producer

Actors: Thomas Haustein, David Bowie, Natja Brunkhorst

Synopsis: Helmed by director Uli Edel, this West German coming-of-age drama is the tale of an aimless teen-aged girl, played by Natja Brunkhorst. In search of kicks, Brunkhorst falls in with junkie/pusher Thomas Haustein. Christiane F boasts a generous chunk of concert footage featuring David Bowie. ~ Hal Read More

1982
Die Glaeserne Zelle

Crew: Production Manager

Actors: Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut

Synopsis: When a school crashes down around the children inside for no apparent reason, architect Phillip Braun (Helmut Griem) is quickly apprehended and tried for having condoned inferior design and construction of the building. He is sentenced to prison. After he has already served his sentence, his Read More

1978
Die Konsequenz

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Werner Schwuchow, Hans Michael Rehberg, Hans Putz

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film tells of an unlikely love affair. While in prison, Martin (Jürgen Prochnow) falls in love with the son of one of his guards. After he leaves prison, he becomes a professional actor. When the young man runs away from home to join him, he is captured and placed in a Read More

1977
Hitler - ein Film aus Deutschland

Crew: Producer, Production Manager

Synopsis: This seven-hour long epic completes the "German Trilogy" of Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, which began with his meditation on the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria and continued with a biography of popular writer Karl May. In this film, he explores the factors in the German psyche which sought for and then Read More

1977
Die Wildente

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jean Seberg, Peter Kern, Bruno Ganz, Anne Bennent, Martin Floerchinger

Synopsis: This tragic drama is adapted from a popular Ibsen play about the relationship between a mother, her egomaniacal husband, and their daughter. The father never approves of anything the daughter does. Desperate to win his love, she gives up her own life so a wild duck may fly free. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

1976
Lieb Vaterland Magst Ruhig Sein

Crew: Producer

Actors: Catherine Allegret, Gunter Pfitzmann, Dietrich Frauboes, Georg Marischka

Synopsis: In this film based on the novel by Jonannes Mario Simmel, Bruno (Heinz Donez) may have served time for petty thievery, and may be an accomplished denizen of the Berlin underworld, but he has heart, and he has plans. When the Berlin wall went up, a whole industry of escape specialists grew up who Read More

1976
Perahim - Die Zweite Chance

Crew: Screenwriter

1974
Falsche Bewegung

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans-Christian Blech, Peter Kern

Synopsis: The Wrong Move and The Wrong Movement were the English-language titles for German director Wim Wenders' Falsche Bewegung. Made for television, the film is an update of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Ruediger Vogeler plays aspiring writer Wilhelm Meister, who goes on a long odyssey in the woods in Read More

1974

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