Frank Beyer, the Glossary
Frank Paul Beyer (26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director.[1]
Table of Contents
100 relations: Abgehauen, Abitur, Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Awards, Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Altenburg, Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, Anti-fascism, ARD (broadcaster), Berlin, Berlin International Film Festival, Bruno Apitz, Buchenwald concentration camp, Carbide and Sorrel, Carl Zuckmayer, Crimmitschau, Cultural Association of the GDR, Dean Reed, DEFA, Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997 film), Der Spiegel, Deutscher Fernsehfunk, Die Welt, Dresden, East Berlin, East Germany, Eastern Front (World War II), Eberhard Panitz, Erich Loest, Ernst Thälmann (film), Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Film director, Findling Award, Five Cartridges, Free German Youth, Görlitz, German nuclear program during World War II, German reunification, Germany, Glauchau, Gymnasium (Germany), Hermann Kant, Humboldt University of Berlin, International Brigades, Jacob the Liar (1975 film), Jakob the Liar, Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany, Jurek Becker, Jutta Hoffmann, Karin Kiwus, ... Expand index (50 more) »
- Mass media people from Thuringia
- People from Altenburger Land
- Recipients of the Heinrich Greif Prize
Abgehauen
Abgehauen is a 1998 German television docudrama directed by Frank Beyer and based on the autobiographical book of the same name by Manfred Krug.
Abitur
Abitur, often shortened colloquially to Abi, is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany.
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Adolf Hitler's rise to power
Adolf Hitler's rise to power began in the newly established Weimar Republic in September 1919 when Hitler joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers' Party).
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Altenburg
Altenburg is a city in Thuringia, Germany, located south of Leipzig, west of Dresden and east of Erfurt.
Anniversaries. From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl
Anniversaries: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl (Jahrestage.) is a tetralogy of novels by Uwe Johnson begun in 1970, with further volumes published in 1971, 1973, and finally in 1983.
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Anti-fascism
Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals.
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ARD (broadcaster)
ARD is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.
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Bruno Apitz
Bruno Apitz (28 April 1900 – 7 April 1979) was a German writer and a survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Frank Beyer and Bruno Apitz are Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany.
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Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchenwald (literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.
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Carbide and Sorrel
Carbide and Sorrel is a 1963 East German comedy film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck.
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Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer (27 December 1896 – 18 January 1977) was a German writer and playwright.
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Crimmitschau
Crimmitschau is a town in the district of Zwickau in Saxony, Germany.
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Cultural Association of the GDR
The Cultural Association of the GDR (Kulturbund der DDR, KB) was a federation of local clubs in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
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Dean Reed
Dean Cyril Reed (September 22, 1938 – June 13, 1986) was an American actor, singer-songwriter, director, and social activist who lived a great part of his adult life in South America and then in East Germany.
DEFA
DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence.
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (1997 film)
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (English: The Captain of Köpenick) is a 1997 Germany historical drama film directed by Frank Beyer, written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase, and starring Harald Juhnke.
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Der Spiegel
(stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.
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Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF; German for "German Television Broadcasting") was the state television broadcaster in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) from 1952 to 1991.
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Die Welt
("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE.
Dresden
Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.
East Berlin
East Berlin (Ost-Berlin) was the partially recognised capital of East Germany (GDR) from 1949 to 1990.
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East Germany
East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.
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Eastern Front (World War II)
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in contemporary German and Ukrainian historiographies, was a theatre of World War II fought between the European Axis powers and Allies, including the Soviet Union (USSR) and Poland.
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Eberhard Panitz
Eberhard Panitz (16 April 1932 – 1 October 2021) was a German writer, screenwriter, literary editor and publicist.
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Erich Loest
Erich Loest (24 February 1926 – 12 September 2013) was a German writer born in Mittweida, Saxony.
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Ernst Thälmann (film)
Ernst Thälmann is an East German film in two parts about the life of Ernst Thälmann, leader of the Communist Party of Germany during much of the Weimar Republic, directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon in the title role.
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Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze) or FAMU is a film school in Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 1946 as one of three branches of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
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Film director
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.
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Findling Award
The Findling Award or short Findling (Findlingspreis) was a German film award donated by the umbrella organization of cultural cinemas and film clubs Verband für Filmkommunikation.
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Five Cartridges
Five Cartridges is a 1960 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl and Manfred Krug.
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Free German Youth
The Free German Youth (Freie Deutsche Jugend; FDJ) is a youth movement in Germany.
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Görlitz
Görlitz (Zgorzelec, Zhorjelc, Zhořelec, East Lusatian dialects) is a town in the German state of Saxony.
German nuclear program during World War II
Nazi Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II.
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German reunification
German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Glauchau
Glauchau (Hłuchow) is a town in the German federal state of Saxony, on the right bank of the Mulde, 7 miles north of Zwickau and 17 miles west of Chemnitz by rail (its train station is on the Dresden–Werdau line).
Gymnasium (Germany)
Gymnasium (German plural: Gymnasien), in the German education system, is the most advanced and highest of the three types of German secondary schools, the others being Hauptschule (lowest) and Realschule (middle).
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Hermann Kant
Hermann Kant (14 June 1926 – 14 August 2016) was a German writer noted for his writings during the time of East Germany. Frank Beyer and Hermann Kant are Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany.
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Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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International Brigades
The International Brigades (Brigadas Internacionales) were soldiers set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.
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Jacob the Liar (1975 film)
Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) is a 1975 war drama film directed by Frank Beyer, adapted by Beyer and Jurek Becker from the latter's novel of the same title.
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Jakob the Liar
Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American-made Holocaust film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft and Marsha Garces Williams.
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Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany
Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the Nazi regime set up ghettos across German-occupied Eastern Europe in order to segregate and confine Jews, and sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns and cities furthering their exploitation.
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Jurek Becker
Jurek Becker (probably 30 September 1937 – 14 March 1997) was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident.
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Jutta Hoffmann
Jutta Hoffmann (born 3 March 1941) is a German actress.
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Karin Kiwus
Karin Kiwus (born 9 November 1942) is a German poet from Berlin.
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Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.
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Kurt Jung-Alsen
Kurt Jung-Alsen (18 June 1915 – 20 December 1976) was a German film director and screenwriter. Frank Beyer and Kurt Jung-Alsen are Recipients of the Heinrich Greif Prize.
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Kurt Maetzig
Kurt Maetzig (25 January 1911 – 8 August 2012) was a German film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany. Frank Beyer and Kurt Maetzig are Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany.
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Leipzig
Leipzig (Upper Saxon: Leibz'sch) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.
Leipzig University
Leipzig University (Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany.
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Leonie Ossowski
Jolanthe von Brandenstein (15 August 1925 – 4 February 2019), known by her pen name Leonie Ossowski, was a German writer.
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Manfred Krug
Manfred Krug (8 February 1937 – 21 October 2016) was a German actor, singer and author. Frank Beyer and Manfred Krug are Recipients of the Heinrich Greif Prize.
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Margarethe von Trotta
Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942, Berlin, Germany) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress.
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Maxim Gorki Theater
The Maxim Gorki Theatre (Maxim Gorki Theater) is a theatre in Berlin-Mitte named after the Soviet writer Maxim Gorky.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.
Naked Among Wolves (1963 film)
Naked Among Wolves is a 1963 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck and Armin Mueller-Stahl.
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Naked Among Wolves (novel)
Naked Among Wolves (Nackt unter Wölfen) is a novel by the East German author Bruno Apitz.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
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Nazi Party
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.
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Neues Deutschland
(nd; New Germany, sometimes stylized in lowercase letters) is a left-wing German daily newspaper, headquartered in Berlin.
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Nikolaikirche (film)
Nikolaikirche is a 1995 German television film directed by Frank Beyer and based on the 1995 book by Erich Loest.
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Nobitz
Nobitz is a municipality in the district Altenburger Land, in Thuringia, Germany.
Penal military unit
A penal military unit, also known as a penal formation, disciplinary unit, or just penal unit (usually named for their formation and size, such as penal battalion for battalions, penal regiment for regiments, penal company for companies, etc.), is a military formation consisting of convicts mobilized for military service.
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Potsdam
Potsdam is the capital and largest city of the German state of Brandenburg.
Prague
Prague (Praha) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia.
Renate Blume
Renate Blume (born 3 May 1944) is a German actress.
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Rostock
Rostock (Polabian: Roztoc), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania.
Rottenknechte
Rottenknechte is a 1971 East German five-part television film directed by Frank Beyer.
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The Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands,; SPD) is a social democratic political party in Germany.
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The Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands,; SED) was the founding and ruling party of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from the country's foundation in 1949 until its dissolution after the Peaceful Revolution in 1989.
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
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Star-Crossed Lovers
Star-Crossed Lovers (King's Children; also known as Invincible Love) is a 1962 East German romantic war drama film directed by Frank Beyer.
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Stasi
The Ministry for State Security (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit,; abbreviated as "MfS"), commonly known as the italics, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit, was the state security service and secret police of East Germany (the GDR) from 1950 to 1990.
Stefan Jerzy Zweig
Stefan Jerzy Zweig (28 January 1941 – 6 February 2024) was a Polish-German author and cameraman.
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The Captain of Köpenick (play)
The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) is a satirical play by the German dramatist Carl Zuckmayer.
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The Last U-Boat
The Last U-Boat (Das letzte U-Boot) is a 1993 German television film directed by Frank Beyer, starring Ulrich Mühe and Ulrich Tukur, and scored by Oskar Sala.
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The Miser
The Miser (L'Avare;; also known by the longer name L'Avare ou L'École du Mensonge, meaning The Miser, or the School for Lies) is a five-act comedy in prose by the French playwright Molière.
The Turning Point (1983 film)
The Turning Point (also screened with the English name Held for Questioning) is a 1983 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren and Klaus Piontek.
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Thuringia
Thuringia, officially the Free State of Thuringia, is a state of central Germany, covering, the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states.
Trace of Stones
Trace of Stones (Spur der Steine) is a 1966 East German film by Frank Beyer.
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Ulrich Plenzdorf
Ulrich Plenzdorf (26 October 1934 – 9 August 2007) was a German author and dramatist. Frank Beyer and Ulrich Plenzdorf are Recipients of the Heinrich Greif Prize.
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Uwe Johnson
Uwe Johnson (20 July 1934 – 22 February 1984) was a German writer, editor, and scholar.
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Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
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West Berlin
West Berlin (Berlin (West) or West-Berlin) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War.
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Wolf Biermann
Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936) is a German singer-songwriter, poet, and former East German dissident.
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Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Wolfgang Kohlhaase (13 March 1931 – 5 October 2022) was a German screenwriter, film director, and writer. Frank Beyer and Wolfgang Kohlhaase are Recipients of the National Prize of East Germany.
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Wolfgang Menge
Wolfgang Menge (10 April 1924 – 17 October 2012) was a German television writer and journalist.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zar und Zimmermann
Zar und Zimmermann (Tsar and Carpenter) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Albert Lortzing, libretto by the composer after Georg Christian Römer's Der Bürgermeister von Saardam, oder Die zwei Peter, itself based on the French play Le Bourgmestre de Saardam, ou Les deux Pierre by Mélésville, Jean-Toussaint Merle, and Eugène Centiran de Boirie.
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Zittau
Zittau (Žitawa; Žytawa; Żytawa; Žitava; Upper Lusatian dialect: Sitte) is the southeasternmost city in the German state of Saxony, and is located in the district of Görlitz, Germany's easternmost district.
Zwei Mütter
Zwei Mütter is a 1957 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and based on a screenplay by Leonie Ossowski.
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25th Berlin International Film Festival
The 25th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 27 June – 8 July 1975.
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3rd Moscow International Film Festival
The 3rd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 7 to 21 July 1963.
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43rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 43rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 11 to 22 February 1993.
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49th Academy Awards
The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California.
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See also
Mass media people from Thuringia
- Dietrich Haugk
- Dietrich Lohmann
- Frank Beyer
People from Altenburger Land
- Anton Goering
- Edgar Braun
- Ernst Börngen
- Frank Beyer
- Fritz Zeuner
- Johann Friedrich Agricola
- Margot Trooger
- Michael Buback
- Walter Libuda
Recipients of the Heinrich Greif Prize
- Frank Beyer
- Günter Reisch
- Günther Rücker
- Günther Simon
- Heiner Carow
- Helga Schubert
- Job von Witzleben (historian)
- Kurt Jung-Alsen
- Lothar Warneke
- Manfred Krug
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Beyer
Also known as Beyer, Frank.
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