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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.
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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- Berlin, Germany
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 (* 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 .
Oct 6, 2006 · Frank Beyer, 74, a well-known film director in the former East Germany who saw some of his movies banned by its communist authorities, died Sunday in Berlin after a long illness.
Feb 9, 2007 · Frank Beyer (1932—2006) directed some of the most powerful and historically significant films made in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). He studied directing in the early 1950s at the renowned Prague Film School (FAMU) with Milos Forman, among others, and he joined the Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA) Studio for Feature ...
Frank Beyer. Director. 25 May 1932 to 30 September 2006. An East German director whose work brought occasional conflict with the controlling Socialist Unity Party, Beyer's best known film - Jacob The Liar (1974) - was seen as an allegorical take on these issues.
