---
name: "Willi Baer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/willi-bar"
fi1m_id: "willi-bar"
imdb_id: "nm0126653"
tmdb_id: 42149
wikidata_id: "Q2576983"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "28 June 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T02:10:37.828399+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Willi Baer

## Identity

Willi Baer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/willi-bar
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** willi-bar
- **IMDb ID:** nm0126653
- **TMDB ID:** 42149
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2576983
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2576983, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126653/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42149

Producer. Born 28 June 1951 in Frankfurt.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 28 June 1951, Frankfurt
- **Active:** 1993–2000
- **Also known as:** Willi Bär, Willie Baer, Willi Bar
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 74 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 71 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Thriller 2, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $97m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2576983, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0126653/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/42149

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Carlito's Way*](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md) (86)
- **Pluto TV:** [*The Contender*](https://film.one/film/the-contender.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Willi Bär is a German film producer. Born on 28 June 1951, he began his career as a journalist, working as an editor at the weekly newspaper Die Tat until 1977 and then as chief editor of the film magazine Cinema until 1989. He has produced films since 1981.

In the 1990s Bär moved to Hollywood and became associated with the SD-Holding company, co-financing and producing a number of American films, often with German investment. His credits as producer or executive producer include *Carlito's Way* (1993), *The Shadow* (1994), *The Virgin Suicides* (1999), *The Contender* (2000), *Jeepers Creepers* (2001) and *City of Ghosts* (2002). He largely retired from executive producing in 2003 and returned to Germany, where he later co-founded the Laika publishing house.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Contender* (2000), Fi1m 64, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-contender.md)
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Fi1m 83, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)
- *Carlito's Way* (1993), Fi1m 86, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Walker* (2007), Executive Producer
- *Prozac Nation* (2003), Executive Producer
- *City of Ghosts* (2002), Producer
- *Pumpkin* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Scenes of the Crime* (2002), Producer
- *Deuces Wild* (2002), Producer
- *No Such Thing* (2002), Executive Producer
- *How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog* (2002), Executive Producer
- *Dancing at the Blue Iguana* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Jeepers Creepers* (2001), Executive Producer
- *CQ* (2001), Executive Producer
- *Not Afraid, Not Afraid* (2001), Executive Producer
- *The Contender* (2000), Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/the-contender.md)
- *State and Main* (2000), Co-Executive Producer
- *Forever Lulu* (2000), Executive Producer
- *The Prophet's Game* (2000), Producer
- *The Virgin Suicides* (2000), Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-virgin-suicides.md)
- *A Map of the World* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Cookie's Fortune* (1999), Executive Producer
- *Afterglow* (1997), Executive Producer
- *Two Bits* (1995), Executive Producer
- *Black Day Blue Night* (1995), Executive Producer
- *The Shadow* (1994), Producer
- *A Business Affair* (1994), Executive Producer
- *Carlito's Way* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/carlitos-way.md)
- *The Real McCoy* (1993), Producer
- *The Last Border* (1993), Executive Producer
- *The Nutt House* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Red Shoe Diaries* (1992), Producer
- *The Polar Bear King* (1991), Co-Producer
- *Superstau* (1991), Co-Producer

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