Mathias Schwerbrock

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Mathias Schwerbrock (born in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) is a producer, director, writer, and line producer. He is the founder of the film company Film Base Berlin GmbH, which co-produced the internationally acclaimed film Don 2 . [1]

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Schwerbrock has produced over 30 projects, wrote, directed and served as line producer, executive producer and service producer on several films.

After studies of philosophy and linguistics in Düsseldorf, Mathias started his career in Munich directing commercials and the short films Killing Boxes (Panorama Berlinale) and a medium length film Lumen (Hof). In 1994 he went to Berlin working as a production manager on a number of German feature films with directors Wolfgang Becker, Max Färberböck, Nico Hofmann and Rainer Matsutani before he moved on to line-produce mostly international feature films in China, Israel, US, Canada, Russia and France. After executive-producing the films Nightsongs (Competition Berlinale) and Hamburger Lektionen by Romuald Karmakar he co-produced the Bollywood action-blockbuster Don 2 with Excel Entertainment, Mumbai, directed by Farhan Akhtar featuring Shah Rukh Khan.

In 2011 his company Film Base Berlin service-produced the European shoot of the series The Transporter for Atlantique Films in Paris followed by the South-Korean action-pic The Berlin File directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. In 2013 and 2014, Mathias was line producing the Berlin shoot of Dreamworks' biopic The 5th Estate on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange directed by Bill Condon and Marjane Satrapi's Mandalay Vision production The Voices. In Israel he produced Sharon Rhyba Khan's documentary Recognition and Erez Pery's The Interrogation followed 2016 by Ofir Graizer's The Cakemaker.

In 2021 Mathias has been line-producing the SKY UK Series Then You Run and service-producing the Berlin shoot of the Killing Eve season 4 and has produced the Netflix documentary ELDORADO for the Thursday.Company. In 2023 he is co-producing the documentary After The Evil by Tamara Erde with Gloria-Films in Paris and is developing the feature film A Road Without A Name with Tamara Erde.

During all this time Mathias has been holding lectures at the Film University Potsdam and the Berlin based Film Academy DFFB, as well as at the Ludwigsburg Academy and the Focal Institution, teaching young Line Producers the skills of producing and international production.

works as a tutor:

Member of the German Producers Association

Member of the European Film Academy

Member of the Producers Guild America p.g.a.

Member of the groundcontrol.network

Credits

YearFilmNotes
2025A Road Without A Name (development)Producer
2024After the EvilAssociate producer
2023Mother MaryLine producer
2023Then You RunLine producer
2023BawaalService producer
2023Eldorado, Everything the Nazis hateProducer
2023VikingerLine producer
2022Sissi 2Line producer
2022Holy SpiderLine producer in prep
2022TraumaProducer in development
2021Love Gets a RoomService producer
2020Vater, Sohn und der Preis des WiderstandesCo-producer in development
2020RostockenProducer in development
2020StorylinesService producer
2019Crews & GangsLine producer
2019And Now LoveService producer
2019The SacrificeProducer in development
2019Berlin, I Love YouLine producer
2018Killing EveService producer
2018Delphi RationaleProducer
2017The CakemakerCo-producer
2016 Human Flow by Ai Weiwei Line producer
2016The InterrogationCo-producer
2015The Man in the High CastleService producer
2015Underground FragranceAssociate producer
2015Recognition (Hakara)Producer
2014The VoicesLine producer
2013The Fifth EstateLine producer
2012Don 2Producer
2011 Transporter: The Series [2] Service producer
2011The Berlin File [3] Service producer
2010Second HoneymoonLine producer
2009 John Rabe Line producer
200924 Hours BerlinLine producer
2009Joanna TrollopeLine producer
2008For My FatherLine producer
2007Rudy: The Return of the Racing PigLine producer
2006My friend, the YetiLine producer
2006Hamburger LektionenExecutive producer
2006 French for Beginners Production supervisor
2004Operation ValkyrieLine producer
2004Nightsongs, Die Nacht singt ihre LiederExecutive producer
2004Wanted!Line producer
2004Carola Stern - DoppellebenLine producer
2003ZuckerbrotLine producer
2003 Wolfsburg Line producer
2002Berlin SymphonyLine producer
2002BoranLine producer
2001Toter MannLine producer
2001Ende der SaisonLine producer
2001Zu nah am FeuerLine producer
2001My Brother the VampireLine producer
2001Der SchußLine producer
2001JuliettaLine producer
1999Romantic FighterProduction manager
1999Aimee & JaguarProduction manager
1999Solo for ClarinetProduction manager
1997Life is All You GetProduction manager
1996The Burning SnailProduction manager
1995 InfightProduction manager
1994Im Osten des FenstersProduction manager
1992BildschirmherrschaftDirector
1991Killing Boxes (short)Director & writer
1989LumenDirector & writer
1989Verfolgte WegeUnit manager
1988Das SonntagskindUnit manager

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