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Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
Hans-Joachim Kasprzik (14 August 1928 – 10 October 1997) was a German film and television director and screenwriter. He worked with DEFA and Deutscher Fernsehfunk in East Germany. Career Hans-Joachim Kasprzik was born in Beuthen. After the war, he attended a training programrun by the newly created DEFARalf Schenk"Rolf Herricht in Hände hoch oder ich schieße"(PDF) DEFA Stiftung (March 2009). Retrieved March 7, 2012 in the Soviet occupation zone. He then began his career there in the 1950s, first working as an assistant for several important directors, such as Kurt Maetzig, Konrad Wolf, Hans Müller and Kurt Jung-Alsen. He worked under Müller on the 1954 film, '' Carola Lamberti – Eine vom Zirkus'', under Jung-Alsen on ''Duped Till Doomsday'' (1957) and under Maetzig on ''First Spaceship on Venus'' (1960). His directorial debut was with the television film '' Gerichtet bei Nacht'' in 1960, which he also wrote. He also directed television miniseries, often writing the scre ...
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DEFA
DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PROGRESS archive platform. History DEFA was founded in Spring 1946 in the Soviet Occupied Zone in eastern Germany; it was the first film production company in post-World War II Germany. While the other Allies, in their zones of occupation, viewed a rapid revival of a German film industry with suspicion, the Soviets valued the medium as a primary means of re-educating the German populace as it emerged from twelve years of Nazi rule. Headquartered in Berlin, the company was formally authorized by the Soviet Military Administration to produce films on 13 May 1946, although Wolfgang Staudte had already begun work on DEFA's first film, ''Die Mörder sind unter uns'' (''The Murderers Are Among Us'') nine days earlier. The original board of di ...
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Hands Up, Or I'll Shoot
''Hands Up or I'll Shoot'' () is an East German crime comedy film directed by Hans-Joachim Kasprzik, who wrote the script along with Rudi Strahl. Rolf Herricht starred as officer Holms. The picture was filmed in 1965, but in 1966 censors refused to allow it to be screened, and therefore post-production ceased. ''Hands Up or I'll Shoot'' was only completed and distributed in 2009, making it the last East German film to be released. Plot Lieutenant Holms, a People's Police detective, has always dreamed of solving complicated crimes. However, the German Democratic Republic has one of the world's lowest crime rates, and the sleepy town of Wolkenheim, in which he is stationed, is considered tranquil even by the national standards. Holms spends his days reading crime novels and daydreaming about working for Scotland Yard in the London underworld. He finally has a case when a local resident reports his rabbits were stolen, but he soon reveals they merely escaped to the nearby field. ...
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People From Bytom
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German Mass Media People
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Polizeiruf 110
''Polizeiruf 110'' ("Police call 110") is a long-running German-language detective television series likened to Poirot. The name links to the emergency telephone number of the ''Volkspolizei''. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and after the dissolution of Deutscher Fernsehfunk the series was picked up by ARD. It was originally created as a counterpart to the West German series ''Tatort'', and quickly became a public favorite. In contrast with other television crime series in which killings are practically the primary focus, while ''Tatort'' handled homicide cases, the cases handled in the GDR TV's ''Polizeiruf'' were more often more frequent crimes such as domestic violence, extortion, fraud, theft and juvenile delinquency, as well as alcoholism, child abuse and rape. Contrary to ''Tatort'', which concentrated on the primary characters and their private lives, police procedure was the center of attention of ''Polizeiruf'', espe ...
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Die Brüder Lautensack
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Kleiner Mann – Was Nun?
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Wolf Unter Wölfen (1965)
''Wolf Among Wolves'' (German title: ''Wolf unter Wölfen'') is a novel by Hans Fallada first published in 1937 by Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, Berlin. Its first unabridged translation into English by Philip Owens was published in 1938. This novel has a large cast of characters and portrays post-World War I Germany. It begins in Berlin 1923 and describes the collapse of the German economy which led to rioting, starvation and widespread unemployment. In 1965 it was adapted into an East German television series ''Wolf Among Wolves'' starring Armin Mueller-Stahl Armin Mueller-Stahl (born 17 December 1930) is a retired German film actor, painter and author, who also appeared in numerous English-language films since the 1980s. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role i .... 1937 German-language novels Novels by Hans Fallada Novels set in the 1920s Novels set in Berlin Fiction set in 1923 Rowohlt Verlag books 1937 German novels German novels a ...
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Every Man Dies Alone
''Every Man Dies Alone'' or ''Alone in Berlin'' (german: Jeder stirbt für sich allein) is a 1947 novel by German author Hans Fallada. It is based on the true story of working-class husband and wife Otto and Elise Hampel who, acting alone, became part of the German Resistance. Fallada's book was one of the first anti-Nazi novels to be published by a German after World War II. Background Otto and Elise Hampel, a working class couple in Berlin, were not interested in politics, but after Elise Hampel learned that her brother had fallen in France, she and her husband began committing acts of civil disobedience. They began writing leaflets on postcards, urging people to resist and overthrow the Nazis. They wrote hundreds of them, leaving them in apartment stairwells and dropping them into mailboxes. Though they knew the law made this a capital crime, they continued this work for well over a year until they were betrayed and arrested. They were tried by Nazi judge Roland Freisler a ...
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