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Boll in 2016
Born	(1965-06-22) 22 June 1965 (age 59) Wermelskirchen, West Germany
Education	University of Cologne University of Siegen
Occupation	Film director producer screenwriter
Years active	1990–2016 2020–present
Spouse(s)	Natalia Tudge (m. 2014)
Children	1

Uwe Boll (born 22 June 1965) is a German filmmaker. He became well-known in the 2000s for making movies based on popular video games. These films were shown in theaters but often didn't do well with critics or at the box office. For example, his 2005 movie Alone in the Dark is often called one of the worst films ever made.

Later, in the 2010s, most of Boll's movies were released directly to home video. He stopped making films in 2016 to open a restaurant. However, he returned to filmmaking in 2022. His movies are funded by his own companies, Boll KG and Event Film Productions.

Early life
Career
Restaurants
Personal life
Filmography
- Film
- Music videos
Images for kids
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Early life

Uwe Boll was born in Wermelskirchen, Germany. He went to the University of Cologne and also studied at the University of Siegen. He earned a special degree called a PhD in 1994.

Boll decided he wanted to make movies when he was just ten years old. This happened after he watched the film Mutiny on the Bounty, which starred Marlon Brando.

Career

Making films

Uwe Boll on the set of his movie In the Name of the King in 2006

Uwe Boll's first two big movies were the horror film Blackwoods and the drama Heart of America. He directed both of these and helped write them.

He became famous for making movies that were loosely based on video games. He directed and produced many of these, including House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, BloodRayne, and Far Cry.

In his 2007 film Seed, Boll used footage to highlight the film's dark themes. He also promised to give 2.5 percent of the money he earned from Seed to PETA.

In 2010, a documentary film about Boll was released. It was called Raging Boll and was directed by Dan West. The movie showed at the Austin Film Festival in October 2010.

In 2011, Boll released Blubberella. This movie was a funny look at superhero films and also made fun of Marvel's MCU movies. Boll said his jokes about the MCU were part of his comedy style.

Boll had plans for a fourth BloodRayne movie. It would have been set in modern times and shown the character trying to live a normal life.

In 2013, Boll announced he wanted to make a sequel to his movie Postal. He tried to raise money for it through a website called Kickstarter, but the plan was canceled.

Uwe Boll at a presentation for his film Rampage: President Down in 2016

In October 2016, Uwe Boll announced he was stopping filmmaking. He said this was mainly because sales of DVDs and Blu-ray discs were going down. He mentioned that he had been using his own money to make his films since 2005.

Even though he retired from directing, he continued to work as a film producer in 2017. In 2018, he said he wanted to return to making films and had sent ideas to Netflix. However, he didn't want to pay for the projects himself anymore.

In October 2020, Boll decided to start making films again. He announced that Germany in Winter would be his next project. In 2022, he shared plans to direct and produce Ness, about the later life of Eliot Ness, and an action thriller called 12 Hours.

In February 2023, the magazine Variety reported that Boll would direct and produce a crime drama called First Shift. This movie follows two different NYPD police officers on their first day working together.

Uwe Boll appeared as himself in the 2023 Romanian film Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. As of 2023, Uwe Boll's estimated worth is about $10 million.

How films are paid for

Uwe Boll's films often did not earn much money at the box office in the United States and other countries. For example, House of the Dead cost $12 million to make but only earned $5.73 million when it first came out. Alone in the Dark cost $20 million but made $5.1 million.

In 2005, some people criticized how Boll funded his movies. He explained that he used a special German tax rule. This rule meant that if you invested in a movie in Germany, the government would give you back about fifty percent of your money. This tax rule was changed in 2006. Overall, Uwe Boll's directed films have earned $41.3 million around the world.

Books he wrote

Uwe Boll has written six books:

Wie man in Deutschland einen Film drehen muss (How one must make a movie in Germany)
Die Gattung Serie und ihre Genres (Genus Series and its Genres), which is about different types of TV shows.
Warum sich keiner mehr zu sagen traut was wirklich ist (Why everybody is scared to say the truth)
Tabula Rasa (Uwe's biography)
Uwe Boll Raw: A Memoir

Video games

Boll also appeared in the 2011 video game Postal III.

Restaurants

After he stopped making films, Uwe Boll started working in the restaurant business. He loved good food and had visited many top-rated restaurants around the world. He even made short videos reviewing restaurants.

In 2015, Boll opened the Bauhaus Restaurant in Vancouver, Canada. He noticed there wasn't much German food in the city. He hired Stefan Hartmann, a chef who had earned a special award called a Michelin star for his own restaurant in Berlin.

The Bauhaus Restaurant has received good reviews from food critics. In 2016, it was ranked 37th on the list of Canada's 100 Best Restaurants. It was also one of only three Canadian restaurants listed in The World's 50 Best Restaurants Discovery Series in 2017. Boll joked about his success, saying, "It's interesting, right? I had to open up a restaurant to get good reviews."

In 2018, Boll and his wife Natalie started the Bauhaus Group to grow their business. They bought the Blenheim Pub in Vancouver and changed it into a family-friendly restaurant. This restaurant later closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. They also planned to open a second Bauhaus Restaurant in Toronto and a third in China.

In 2020, his restaurant won a gold award for Best European Restaurant at the Vancouver Magazine Awards.

Personal life

Uwe Boll lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his family. Even though he has lived in Canada for many years, he is still a German citizen. He married Canadian film producer Natalia Tudge in 2014. They have a son together, and he also has a stepson.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor	Notes
1991	German Fried Movie	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
1993	Barschel – Mord in Genf [de]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
1994	Amoklauf	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Nominated for Max Ophüls Award
1997	Das erste Semester	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2000	Fíaskó	No	No	Yes	No
2000	Sanctimony	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2001	Blackwoods	Yes	Yes	No	No
2002	Angels Don't Sleep Here	No	No	Yes	No
2002	Heart of America	Yes	Story	No	No
2003	House of the Dead	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on The House of the Dead franchise by Sega
2005	Alone in the Dark	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the Alone in the Dark series by Infogrames Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Sense of Direction Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
2005	BloodRayne	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the BloodRayne franchise by Terminal Reality Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Sense of Direction Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
2007	In the Name of the King	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the Dungeon Siege series by Gas Powered Games Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture
	They Wait	No	No	Yes	No	Nominated — Leo Award for Best Feature Length Drama
	BloodRayne 2: Deliverance	Yes	No	No	No	Based on the BloodRayne franchise by Terminal Reality
	Postal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Based on the Postal franchise by Running with Scissors Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
	Seed	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Best Special Effects at New York City Horror Film Festival
2008	Tunnel Rats	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Director
	Alone in the Dark II	No	No	Yes	No	Based on the Alone in the Dark series by Infogrames
	Far Cry	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the Far Cry franchise by Ubisoft
2009	Stoic	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Rampage	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Darfur	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Best international film at New York International Independent Film and Video Festival
2010	The Final Storm	Yes	No	Yes	No
2010	Max Schmeling	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
2011	Auschwitz	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Blubberella	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	BloodRayne: The Third Reich	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the BloodRayne franchise by Terminal Reality
	In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the Dungeon Siege series by Gas Powered Games
2013	Zombie Massacre	No	No	Yes	Yes
	Assault on Wall Street	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
	Suddenly	Yes	No	No	No
	The Profane Exhibit (segment "Basement")	Yes	No	Yes	No
2014	Blood Valley: Seed's Revenge	No	No	Yes	No
	In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission	Yes	No	Yes	No	Based on the Dungeon Siege series by Gas Powered Games
	Rampage: Capital Punishment	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Morning Star Warrior	No	No	Yes	No
2015	Anger of the Dead	No	No	Yes	No
2015	Zombie Massacre 2: Reich of the Dead	No	No	Yes	No
2016	Rampage: President Down	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2017	House of Evil	No	No	Yes	No
2021	The Decline	No	No	Yes	No	Documentary
2021	Hanau (Deutschland im Winter - Part 1)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2023	Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World	No	No	No	Yes	Cameo appearance
2024	First Shift	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2024	Bandidos	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Documentary
2025	Run	Yes	Yes	Yes	0TBA	Post-production

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2004	"Wish I Had an Angel"	Nightwish

Images for kids

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Uwe Boll on the set of In the Name of the King in 2006
Uwe Boll at a presentation for his film Rampage: President Down in 2016