After working in the film business for many years, he enrolled at the University of Television and Film Munich in 1994, where he went on to produce over 15 short films, commercials and documentaries, including the shorts "The Wrong Trip" and "Living Dead" by directing student Dennis Gansel, and shorts by their mutual friend and fellow student Peter Thorwarth "If it don't fit, use a bigger hammer" and "Mafia, Pizza, Razzia". He also produced graduating films like Benjamin Herrmann's "The Big Laugh" based on the Henry Slesar short story and Student Oscar winner "Quiero ser " by Florian Gallenberger. No student in the history of Munich Film School has ever produced as many student films as Christian Becker. In 1997, Becker founded Indigo Filmproduktion and Becker & Haeberle Filmproduktion together with partner Thomas Haeberle, with which he produced Dennis Gansel's TV movie "Das Phantom", or Thorwarth's theatrical cult features "Bang Boom Bang" and "Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht" | "If it don't fit use a bigger hammer". After follow-ups including "" based on Feridun Zaimoğlu's novel and "7 Days To Live", Becker was one of the most successful producers in the German industry at the age of 28. In August 2000, Becker and Häberle folded their production shingle into the entertainment conglom they co-founded, F.A.M.E. AG, and went public on Germany's Neuer Markt. In 2001, Christian Becker left Indigo and Becker & Häberle, going on to found Rat Pack Filmproduktion and Westside Filmproduktion together with leading German distrib Constantin Film and his close-knit band of filmmaking pros.
Filmography
;Feature Films Jim_Knopf_und_Lukas_der_Lokomotivführer_
Our Island in the South Pacific / Südsee, eigene Insel
;Short Films
Kismet
Quiero ser
Operation Bluebird
Living Dead
Mafia, Pizza, Razzia
Die letzte Sekunde
Drachenträume
Was nicht paßt, wird passend gemacht
Fools and Heroes
Der große Lacher
Die rote Waschmaschine
One Night Suicide
Der Tote vom anderen Ufer
Kreuz & quer
The Wrong Trip''
Movie productions
Under the Rat Pack label, Christian Becker again had a remarkable string of successes, producing hit made-for-TV action-adventure The Hunt for the Hidden Relic based on Andreas Eschbach's bestseller, two seasons of the series spin-off Was nicht passt, wird passend gemacht, Rats 2, and mystic actioner Blood of the templars. His theatrical features include box-office smash Hammer-style Edgar Wallace spoof The TriXXer, which sold a total of 3 million tickets with the sequel The VeXXer, as well as Peter Thorwarth's satire Goldene Zeiten starring Dirk Benedict, hit kidpic Hui Buh - The Goofy Ghost and Dennis Gansel's Sundance entry and European box-office smash The Wave . 2009 saw the release of hit kidpic Max von der Grün's The Crocodiles, the screwball gangster comedy Mord ist mein Geschäft, Liebling, starring Rick Kavanian and Christian Tramitz as well as European film legends Bud Spencer and Franco Nero. He also produced the most successful German box office hit 2009 Vicky the Viking by director Michael Bully Herbig; the film made nearly 5 million admissions in Germany only with a total gross revenue of approximately $40,582,384.
