Wolfgang Staudte

Wolfgang Staudte (9 October 1906 in Saarbrücken - 19 January 1984) was a German film director.

He most important work came in the ten years following World War II, in which he worked with the DEFA in East Germany. The main focus of his work was to highlight the limits of German national pride.

Following 1956 he worked in West Germany. By the 70's, his work was no longer considered particularly modern and he moved to television, on shows such as Der Kommissar and Tatort.

Filmography, selective

• 1942 Akrobat schö-ö-ö-n
• 1944 Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl
• 1946 Die Mörder sind unter uns
• 1948/49 Rotation
• 1949 Schicksal aus zweiter Hand
• 1951 Der Untertan from the novel by Heinrich Mann
• 1951 A Tale of Five Cities
• 1953 Geschichte vom kleinen Muck from the fairy tale by Wilhelm Hauff
• 1954 Leuchtfeuer
• 1955 Ciske de Rat
• 1957 Rose Bernd
• 1958 Kanonenserenade
• 1959 Rosen für den Staatsanwalt
• 1960 Kirmes
• 1960 Der Letzte Zeuge
• 1962/63 Die Dreigroschenoper from the musical by Bertolt Brecht
• 1964 Herrenpartie
• 1965/66 Ganovenehre
• 1968 Heimlichkeiten
• 1969 Die Herren mit der weissen Weste

External links

• Wolfgang Staudte at the Internet Movie Database