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Konrad Petzold
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Konrad Petzold (26 April 1930, Radebeul - 12 November 1999, Kleinmachnow) was a German film director, writer, and actor.[1]
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Biography
Born the youngest of six children in a poor family, he was the son of a worker and a housewife. After an internship at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), he shot his first feature film in Czechoslovakia in 1955, a comedy called The Fools Among Us. His next film was an adventure film, A Dog in the Marsh, which brought him national recognition, especially among young people.[citation needed] However his next movie The Dress (1961), based on "The Emperor's New Clothes", was accused of hidden political satire, and he was temporarily dismissed from the profession.[2]
Petzold, along with other directors such as Konrad Wolf, Heiner Carow, and Egon Günther, were part of the so-called "second DEFA generation" born in East Germany between 1920 and 1930.[3]
In 1969, Petzold shot the first of five "american-indian films" (. After Gottfried Kolditz died suddenly on an aneurysm on 15 June 1982, Petzold directed his film Der Scout (The Scout), released 1983.[4]
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Selected filmography
- Die Fahrt nach Bamsdorf (1956)
- Abenteuer in Bamsdorf (1958)
- Natürlich die Nelli (1959)
- Der Moorhund (1960)
- The Dress (co-director: Egon Günther, 1961)
- Die Jagd nach dem Stiefel (1962)
- Das Lied vom Trompeter (1964)
- Alfons Zitterbacke (1966)
- Weiße Wölfe (1969)
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