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]
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
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | A Road Without A Name (development) | Producer |
| 2024 | After the Evil | Associate producer |
| 2023 | Mother Mary | Line producer |
| 2023 | Then You Run | Line producer |
| 2023 | Bawaal | Service producer |
| 2023 | Eldorado, Everything the Nazis hate | Producer |
| 2023 | Vikinger | Line producer |
| 2022 | Sissi 2 | Line producer |
| 2022 | Holy Spider | Line producer in prep |
| 2022 | Trauma | Producer in development |
| 2021 | Love Gets a Room | Service producer |
| 2020 | Vater, Sohn und der Preis des Widerstandes | Co-producer in development |
| 2020 | Rostocken | Producer in development |
| 2020 | Storylines | Service producer |
| 2019 | Crews & Gangs | Line producer |
| 2019 | And Now Love | Service producer |
| 2019 | The Sacrifice | Producer in development |
| 2019 | Berlin, I Love You | Line producer |
| 2018 | Killing Eve | Service producer |
| 2018 | Delphi Rationale | Producer |
| 2017 | The Cakemaker | Co-producer |
| 2016 | Human Flow by Ai Weiwei | Line producer |
| 2016 | The Interrogation | Co-producer |
| 2015 | The Man in the High Castle | Service producer |
| 2015 | Underground Fragrance | Associate producer |
| 2015 | Recognition (Hakara) | Producer |
| 2014 | The Voices | Line producer |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Line producer |
| 2012 | Don 2 | Producer |
| 2011 | [2] | Service producer |
| 2011 | The Berlin File[3] | Service producer |
| 2010 | Second Honeymoon | Line producer |
| 2009 | John Rabe | Line producer |
| 2009 | 24 Hours Berlin | Line producer |
| 2009 | Joanna Trollope | Line producer |
| 2008 | For My Father | Line producer |
| 2007 | Rudy: The Return of the Racing Pig | Line producer |
| 2006 | My friend, the Yeti | Line producer |
| 2006 | Hamburger Lektionen | Executive producer |
| 2006 | French for Beginners | Production supervisor |
| 2004 | Operation Valkyrie | Line producer |
| 2004 | Nightsongs, Die Nacht singt ihre Lieder | Executive producer |
| 2004 | Wanted! | Line producer |
| 2004 | Carola Stern - Doppelleben | Line producer |
| 2003 | Zuckerbrot | Line producer |
| 2003 | Wolfsburg | Line producer |
| 2002 | Berlin Symphony | Line producer |
| 2002 | Boran | Line producer |
| 2001 | Toter Mann | Line producer |
| 2001 | Ende der Saison | Line producer |
| 2001 | Zu nah am Feuer | Line producer |
| 2001 | My Brother the Vampire | Line producer |
| 2001 | Der Schuß | Line producer |
| 2001 | Julietta | Line producer |
| 1999 | Romantic Fighter | Production manager |
| 1999 | Aimee & Jaguar | Production manager |
| 1999 | Solo for Clarinet | Production manager |
| 1997 | Life is All You Get | Production manager |
| 1996 | The Burning Snail | Production manager |
| 1995 | Infight | Production manager |
| 1994 | Im Osten des Fensters | Production manager |
| 1992 | Bildschirmherrschaft | Director |
| 1991 | Killing Boxes (short) | Director & writer |
| 1989 | Lumen | Director & writer |
| 1989 | Verfolgte Wege | Unit manager |
| 1988 | Das Sonntagskind | Unit manager |