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Frank Paul Beyer (German: [fʁaŋk ˈbaɪ̯.ɐ] ⓘ; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany.
Frank Beyer (* 26. Mai 1932 in Nobitz, Thüringen; † 1. Oktober 2006 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Filmregisseur, der die meisten seiner Filme für die DEFA in der DDR drehte und dort trotz seiner im Lauf der Jahre zunehmend kritischen Haltung gegenüber der SED mehrfach ausgezeichnet wurde, unter anderem mit dem Nationalpreis der DDR .
With the genre piece "Karbid und Sauerampfer" from 1963, he made his breakthrough as a celebrated director of comedies. Frank Beyer became the most important filmmaker in the GDR alongside Gerhard Klein, Joachim Kunert and Konrad Wolf, but his works also caused political controversy.
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- Nobitz, Thuringia, Germany
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Frank Beyer, film director: born Nobitz, Germany 26 May 1932; married 1965 Renate Blume (marriage dissolved 1974); died Berlin 1 October 2006. 'Perhaps I have had the greatest triumphs and the...
Oct 3, 2006 · Oct. 3, 2006. BERLIN, Oct. 2 (Agence France-Presse) — Frank Beyer, one of East Germany’s most renowned filmmakers in its Communist era, best known for his Warsaw ghetto drama “Jacob the Liar,”...
FRANK BEYER was the only film director to break through the censorship and isolation of East Germany to win an Oscar nomination. He did so with his l974 film Jakob der Lügner (Jacob...
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May 3, 2000 · The recipient of many national and international awards, he is the only GDR filmmaker in history to have been nominated for an Oscar for best foreign film. Born in Nobitz in 1932, Beyer studied filmmaking in Prague from 1952-1957, after which he worked as a director at DEFA Studios, now known as Studio Babelsberg.
