tie boot is a war film from 1981. The screenplay is based on the novel tie boot from 1973 by the German author Lothar-Günther Buchheim. The film made the novel known throughout West Germany. In 1998 came the directors cut version of tie boot from.
Petersen has also directed a number of Hollywood films, such as Enemy Mine (1985), In the Line of Fire (1993) with Clint Eastwood and breakout (1995) with Dustin Hoffman.