Wolfgang Staudte
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Wolfgang Staudte | |
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| Born | Georg Friedrich Staudte 9 October 1906 |
| Died | 19 January 1984 (aged 77) |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, Screenwriter, Actor |
| Years active | 1932-1969 |
Wolfgang Staudte (9 October 1906 – 19 January 1984), born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken.
His most important work came in the ten years following World War II, in which he worked with the DEFA in East Germany. The main focus of his work was to highlight the limits of German national pride. His work in anti-Nazi films, such as Murderers Among Us (1946), was also a personal working through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the anti-Semitic film Jud Süß).
Following 1956 he worked in West Germany. By the 1970s, his work was no longer considered particularly modern and he moved to television, on shows such as Der Kommissar and Tatort.
Selected filmography
As director
- 1942 Das Grosse Spiel
- Bravo Acrobat! (1943)
- 1944 Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl
- 1946 Die Mörder sind unter uns
- 1948 The Adventures of Fridolin
- 1949 Rotation
- 1949 Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
- 1951 Der Untertan from the novel by Heinrich Mann
- 1951 A Tale of Five Cities
- 1953 Geschichte vom kleinen Muck from the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff
- 1954 Leuchtfeuer
- 1955 Ciske de Rat
- 1957 Rose Bernd
- 1958 Madeleine und der Legionär
- 1958 Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano
- 1958 The Muzzle
- 1959 Rosen für den Staatsanwalt
- 1960 Kirmes
- 1960 Der Letzte Zeuge
- 1962 Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds (co-director)
- 1963 Die Dreigroschenoper from the musical by Bertolt Brecht
- 1964 Herrenpartie
- 1964 Das Lamm
- 1966 Ganovenehre
- 1968 Heimlichkeiten
- 1970 Die Herren mit der weißen Weste
- 1971 Jailbreak in Hamburg
- 1971 Der Seewolf (TV miniseries)
- 1978 Zwischengleis
As actor
- The Street Song (1931)
- Tannenberg (1932)
- Homecoming to Happiness (1933)
- Grand Duchess Alexandra (1933)
- Togger (1937)
- All Lies (1938)
- By a Silken Thread (1938)
- D III 88 (1939)
- Shoulder Arms (1939)
- Legion Condor (1939)
- Jud Süß (1940)
- Friedemann Bach (1941)
- Riding for Germany (1941)
- The Big Game (1942)
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