Konrad Petzold

Konrad Petzold

Konrad Petzold
Died	November 12, 1999 aoremovetag(aged 69)

Konrad Petzold

Biography

Born the youngest of six children in a poor family of a worker and a housewife. After the end of the Second world war, organized in your city youth amateur theater. After 1949, the works in the studio of the DEF, in 1950, making his debut as a film actor. After internship in film&television school of the Academy of arts in Prague, was shot in Czechoslovakia in 1955, his first feature film - comedy "the Fools among us" (German: Blázni mezi námi). The adventure film "a Dog in the marsh" (German: Der Moorhund) brought Петцольду national recognition, especially among young people. However, the next movie "Dress" (German: Das Kleid) after story of a fairy tale "the emperor's New clothes" was accused of hidden political satire on the current system, and the director temporarily dismissed from the profession.

In 1969, Petzoldt shot the first of the five "american indian films" (it. Indianerfilme), which became for many years the "business card" of the film studio DEF and the director. After the unification of Germany in 1990, the director was unclaimed.

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