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Konrad Petzold (1930-1999)

Alias:
Конрад Петцольд

Birthplace:
Radebeul, Germany

Born:
April 26, 1930

Died:
November 12, 1999

Biography from TheMovieDB

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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Film Production

Director:
1955  Fools Among Us
1956  The Trip to Bamsdorf
1958  Adventures in Bamsdorf
1959  Natürlich die Nelli!
1960  The Moorhound
1962  The Hunt for the Boot
1963  Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
1964  The Song of the Trumpeter
1966  Alfons Zitterbacke
1969  White Wolves
1970  Fatal Error
1971  Osceola
1973  Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
1974  Kit & Co.
1978  Oh, diese Tante
1979  Für Mord kein Beweis
1980  Alma schafft alle
1980  Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
1981  Martin XIII.
1983  The Scout
1986  Startfieber
1989  The Goose Princess
1991  Das Kleid

Screenplay:
1955  Fools Among Us
1956  The Trip to Bamsdorf
1958  Adventures in Bamsdorf
1959  Natürlich die Nelli!
1960  The Moorhound
1962  The Hunt for the Boot
1963  Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
1964  The Song of the Trumpeter
1966  Alfons Zitterbacke
1969  White Wolves
1970  Fatal Error
1971  Osceola
1973  Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
1974  Kit & Co.
1978  Oh, diese Tante
1979  Für Mord kein Beweis
1980  Alma schafft alle
1980  Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
1981  Martin XIII.
1983  The Scout
1986  Startfieber
1989  The Goose Princess
1991  Das Kleid

Writer:
1955  Fools Among Us
1956  The Trip to Bamsdorf
1958  Adventures in Bamsdorf
1959  Natürlich die Nelli!
1960  The Moorhound
1962  The Hunt for the Boot
1963  Jetzt und in der Stunde meines Todes
1964  The Song of the Trumpeter
1966  Alfons Zitterbacke
1969  White Wolves
1970  Fatal Error
1971  Osceola
1973  Die Hosen des Ritters von Bredow
1974  Kit & Co.
1978  Oh, diese Tante
1979  Für Mord kein Beweis
1980  Alma schafft alle
1980  Die Schmuggler von Rajgrod
1981  Martin XIII.
1983  The Scout
1986  Startfieber
1989  The Goose Princess
1991  Das Kleid

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TV Production

Director:
1984  Mensch, Oma

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