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Michael Schaefer

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Biography

Michael Schaefer is a German film producer best known for the 2015 film The Martian.

Notable films

Where to start

Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.

The Martian

Appears in a KinoChain journey

The Lighthouse

Appears in a KinoChain journey

Now You See Me

Executive Producer

The Northman

Executive Producer

The Creator

Executive Producer

The Crowded Room

Executive Producer

Barbarian

Executive Producer

Alien: Covenant

Producer

Chains

KinoChain journeys

Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.

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Storming the Deck

From the Bounty to the Caine, mutiny films have always been about more than shipboard insurrection. This chain charts how cinematic rebellions at sea reflect th...

7 films

The Wicker Shadows of Folk Horror

From a wartime farce to sunlit cults and lighthouse madness, a journey through rural dread and the rituals that bind us.

8 films

No shared language, just shared work

A chain of six films where collaboration, not language, becomes the bridge between alien intelligences. Diplomacy assumes a shared frame of reference, words, ge...

6 films

Moana and the Sea as Mirror and Crucible

Taking the core premise of Moana (the ocean as a living force that tests, transforms, and reveals who you are) and steering it into far darker territory, this c...

8 films

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