Life and work

Verhoeven is the son of German film director, Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven (Germany)

Paul Verhoeven was a German actor, writer, and film and theatre director.He had 13 siblings and the family lived in modest circumstances.He directed and acted in over 50 films, and wrote over 20 film scripts, the first of which was Das kleine Hofkonzert in 1935, an operetta with music by Edmund...

 (not to be confused with the Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven). He married actress Senta Berger

Senta Berger

Senta Berger is an Austrian film, stage and television actress, producer and author.Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as one of the leading German-speaking actresses in polls, Berger has received many award nominations for her acting...

 in 1966; their son is the actor-director Simon Verhoeven

Simon Verhoeven

Simon Verhoeven is a German actor, screenwriter and film director. He is the son of the actor Senta Berger and the director Michael Verhoeven. His filmography as an actor includes Bride of the Wind and The Sinking of the Laconia .-Sources:*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0894207/...

. Together, the couple formed a production company to make films. The anti-Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

 film, o.k.

O.k. (film)

o.k. is a 1970 West German anti-war film directed by Michael Verhoeven. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 43rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film was also entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival...

was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival

20th Berlin International Film Festival

The 20th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 26 to July 7, 1970. However, the competition was cancelled and no prizes were awarded, over controversy surrounding Michael Verhoeven's film o.k.-Jury:* George Stevens...

, but a scandal forced a collapse of the festival without the awarding of any prizes.

In 1982, Verhoeven released Die weiße Rose

Die Weiße Rose (film)

Die Weiße Rose is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad...

(The White Rose), which, with the Best Foreign film nomination of Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl) in 1990, cemented his reputation as an important political contributor to German film. Along with his films Mutters Courage (My Mother's Courage) and documentary Der unbekannte Soldat (The Unknown Soldier), they have been hailed as an unstinting examination of Germany's Nazi

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

 period. In 1992, he was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival

42nd Berlin International Film Festival

The 42nd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 13 to 24, 1992.-Jury:* Annie Girardot * Charles Champlin* Sylvia Chang* Ildikó Enyedi* Irving N...

.

Awards

• 1990 Silver Bear for Best Director
  Silver Bear for Best Director
  The Silver Bear for Best Director is the Berlin International Film Festival's award for best achievement in direction.-Awards:-Repeated winners:*Mario Monicelli *Satyajit Ray *Carlos Saura -External links:*...
  
  , 40th Berlin International Film Festival
  40th Berlin International Film Festival
  The 40th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from February 9 to 20, 1990.-Jury:* Michael Ballhaus * Margaret Ménégoz * Vadim Abdrashitov* Suzana Amaral* Steven Bach* Roberto Benigni* Lívia Gyarmathy...
  
   for The Nasty Girl
• 1995 Bavarian Film Awards, Best Production
  Bavarian Film Awards (Best Production)
  This is a list of the winners of the Bavarian Film Awards Prize for best production.1982 Franz Seitz, Michael Wiedemann1983 Karel Dirka1984 Bernd Eichinger, Dieter Geißler, Günter Rohrbach1986 Bernd Eichinger...
  
  
• 2006 Bavarian Film Awards, Honorary Award
  Bavarian Film Awards (Honorary Award)
  This is a list of the winners of the Bavarian Film Awards Prize Honorary award.1985 Douglas Sirk1986 Heinz Rühmann1987 Luggi Waldleitner1988 Bernhard Wicki1989 Franz Seitz junior1990 Fritz Preßmar...
  
  

Selected filmography

• Paarungen (1967)
• O.K.
  O.k. (film)
  o.k. is a 1970 West German anti-war film directed by Michael Verhoeven. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 43rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film was also entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival...
  
  (1970)
• He Who Loves in a Glass House
  He Who Loves in a Glass House
  He Who Loves in a Glass House is a 1971 German film directed by Michael Verhoeven. It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  (1971)
• MitGift (1976)
• Sonntagskinder (1980)
• Die weiße Rose
  Die Weiße Rose (film)
  Die Weiße Rose is a 1982 German film about the White Rose resistance to the Nazi authorities led by a group of Christian students in Munich in 1942-1943 whose members were caught and executed in February 1943, shortly after the German capitulation at Stalingrad...
  
  (1982)
• Killing Cars (1986)
• Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl) (1990)
• Mutters Courage (Mother's Courage) (1995)
• Der unbekannte Soldat (The Unknown Soldier) (2006)
• Menschliches Versagen (Human Failure) (2008)

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