Konrad Petzold

Born: 1930-04-26

Konrad Petzold (26 April 1930, Radebeul - 12 November 1999, Kleinmachnow) was a German film director, writer, and actor. 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. 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. 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. 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.


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The Scout

as uncredited
Released: 1983-05-27

1877, the tribe of the Nez Percés Indians are driven into the reservation by a white cavalry...

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Alma schafft alle

as uncredited
Released: 1980-05-01

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Fatal Error

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-03

At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity...

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Osceola

as uncredited
Released: 1971-06-26

Florida, 1830 - Of all eastern Native American tribes, only the Seminoles have resisted being...

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Für Mord kein Beweis

as Obermeister des Strafvollzugs
Released: 1979-04-18

After a fierce argument Steffi Zinn′s husband leaves the joint flat and stays away from home...

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The Benthin Family

as FDJler
Released: 1950-09-07

The brothers Theo and Gustav Benthin pull profits through smuggling in divided Germany: Theo in...

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