Word: petersen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Director Wolfgang Petersen (Das Boot, In the Line of Fire) handles it all proficiently and at times artfully, as in two elaborate tracking shots that reveal various levels of biological contamination and the spread of the disease through hospital vents. Still, the whole operation looks musclebound. Outbreak is really about the lumbering, quasimilitary maneuvers that go into big-budget filmmaking. If Preston's virus story were a virus, the Outbreak team would aim an H-bomb at it. And the Hot Zone people would be sitting around apprehensively, waiting for it to develop...
...previous visits, had complained in broken English about genocide and human rights violations in Poland. Petersen said he and another employee fled the office and called the Fire Department when the man set himself on fire...
...screamed, and then became very quiet," Petersen said. "The tragic thing is he felt he had to commit suicide...
...said he wouldn't listen to us, and he wouldn't leave the office," Petersen said...
...Cross office, at 630 Third Ave., is a small one, housing only a few staffers and generally dealing with natural disaster relief. Petersen and Bunt were the only workers there when the self-immolation occurred...