Robert Schwentke (German: [ˈʃvɛŋkə]; born February 15, 1968) is a German film director and screenwriter.

Life and career

Schwentke was born in Stuttgart, Germany. He graduated from Los Angeles film school, Columbia College Hollywood (CCH), in 1992. His wife is an American.

He directed two feature films in Germany, the thriller Tattoo and the comedy Eierdiebe, the latter a semi-autobiographical film about a man being treated for testicular cancer, a disease he had been diagnosed with and survived himself in 1995.

Although not intending to do Hollywood movies, he ended up doing so after having trouble financing a third German film.

Schwentke directed 2009's The Time Traveler's Wife, based on the best-selling novel, and starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. That same year, Schwentke directed…Read more on Wikipedia