Person · Producer

Uwe Boll

A disgraced filmmaker with a history of controversial hits makes a comeback with a radical action thriller that challenges censorship and reignites his career.

Born

June 22, 1965

From

Wermelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Also:
Director
Writer

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Decades active

In short · Producing since 1992, 4 decades active, 69 credits.

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Biography

As a youth, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video. After brief periods as a guest auditor at Filmacademy Vienna and Filmhochschule Munich, Boll studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. He earned a doctorate in literature in 1995. From 1995 to 2000, he worked as a producer and director at Taunus Film-Produktions GmbH. Boll was Chief Executive Officer of Bolu Filmproduction and Distribution GmbH, a company he founded in 1992. He continued to direct, write, and produce feature films until 2016. His main companies are Event Films in Vancouver and Bolu Film in Germany. A longtime resident of Canada, Boll owned the restaurant "Bauhaus" in Vancouver from 2015 to 2020. He returned to Germany in 2020 and resumed filming.