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Wolfgang Knöpfler

  • Production Manager
  • Producer
  • Location Management
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Wolfgang Knöpfler is known for Funny Games (1997), The Ivory Game (2016) and Sea of Shadows (2019).
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

    Known for

    Funny Games (1997)
    Funny Games
    7.5
    • Production Department
    • 1997
    The Ivory Game (2016)
    The Ivory Game
    7.8
    • Producer
    • 2016
    Sea of Shadows (2019)
    Sea of Shadows
    7.3
    • Producer(p.g.a.)
    • 2019
    Beyond Boundaries
    7.0
    TV Series
    • Production Management(2005)
    • 2005

    Credits

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    Production Management

    • Terra Mater (2011)
      Terra Mater
      8.0
      TV Series
      • production manager
      • 2014–2025
    • Annika Funke in Das Waisenhaus für wilde Tiere (2011)
      Das Waisenhaus für wilde Tiere
      7.8
      TV Series
      • production manager
      • 2011–2013
    • Der Sambesi (2013)
      Der Sambesi
      TV Mini Series
      • production manager
      • 2013
    • Universum (1987)
      Universum
      8.3
      TV Series
      • production manager
      • 2000–2011
    • Great Rift - Der große Graben (2009)
      Great Rift - Der große Graben
      8.1
      TV Series
      • production manager
      • 2009
    • The Future Is Wild and the Making of Spore
      8.1
      TV Movie
      • production manager
      • 2008
    • Joachim Fuchsberger, Cosma Shiva Hagen, and Olivier Sitruk in Bible Code (2008)
      Bible Code
      4.8
      TV Series
      • location production manager: Namibia
      • 2008
    • Viking Boat Race
      TV Movie
      • production manager (as Wolfgang Knoepfler)
      • 2006
    • Beyond Boundaries
      7.0
      TV Series
      • production manager (2005)
      • 2005
    • F. Murray Abraham, Peter Coyote, Allison Argo, David Attenborough, Paul Christie, John Benjamin Hickey, Howard McGillin, George Page, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Nora Young, Toby Leonard Moore, and Chris Morgan in Nature (1982)
      Nature
      8.9
      TV Series
      • production manager
      • 2004–2005
    • The Future Is Wild (2003)
      The Future Is Wild
      7.6
      TV Series
      • production manager
      • 2003
    • Schwimmer in der Wüste (2001)
      Schwimmer in der Wüste
      7.3
      • production manager
      • 2001
    • Automat Kalaschnikow (2000)
      Automat Kalaschnikow
      7.5
      • location production manager: Afghanistan
      • 2000
    • Das Geheimnis der Gärten
      TV Movie
      • production manager
      • 2000
    • Achtung Grenze
      • production manager
      • 1999

    Producer

    • Nine Little Indians
      • producer
      • Post-production
    • Terra Mater (2011)
      Terra Mater
      8.0
      TV Series
      • executive producer: TV version
      • line producer
      • executive producer
      • 2014–2025
    • System Change - A story of growing resistance (2024)
      System Change - A story of growing resistance
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • Dethroned (2024)
      Dethroned
      • executive producer
      • 2024
    • F. Murray Abraham, Peter Coyote, Allison Argo, David Attenborough, Paul Christie, John Benjamin Hickey, Howard McGillin, George Page, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, Nora Young, Toby Leonard Moore, and Chris Morgan in Nature (1982)
      Nature
      8.9
      TV Series
      • producer
      • line producer
      • 2014–2024
    • Deep Rising (2023)
      Deep Rising
      6.7
      • co-executive producer
      • 2023
    • Patrick and the Whale (2022)
      Patrick and the Whale
      7.5
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Valley of the Bears (2022)
      Valley of the Bears
      9.4
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • The Arctic: Our Last Great Wilderness (2021)
      The Arctic: Our Last Great Wilderness
      7.3
      • producer
      • 2021
    • Watson (2019)
      Watson
      8.2
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Sea of Shadows (2019)
      Sea of Shadows
      7.3
      • producer (p.g.a.)
      • 2019
    • Wild Korea: Life at the Borderlands
      7.2
      TV Movie
      • line producer: Terra Mater Factual Studios
      • 2019
    • South Korea: Earth's Hidden Wilderness (2018)
      South Korea: Earth's Hidden Wilderness
      6.9
      TV Movie
      • line producer: Terra Mater Factual Studios
      • 2018
    • Heimatleuchten (2016)
      Heimatleuchten
      6.7
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2017
    • The Ivory Game (2016)
      The Ivory Game
      7.8
      • producer
      • 2016
    • Beyond Boundaries
      7.0
      TV Series
      • line producer
      • 2006–2008

    Location Management

    • Tobias Moretti in Kommissar Rex (1994)
      Kommissar Rex
      7.2
      TV Series
      • location manager
      • 1996

    Personal details

    • Alternative name
      • Wolfgang Knoepfler

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