From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wolf Rilla (1920–2005) was a film director and writer of German background, although he worked mainly in English. He worked on both versions of Village of the Damned, in the first as director and in the second as a writer. he wrote many influential books for students. the Writer and the Screen: On Writing for Film and Television and the A to Z of Movie Making. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wolf Rilla, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​