Heinz Thiel (10 May 1920 – 9 March 2003) was a German

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1977. His 1967 film ''

Bread and Roses "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated from a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" inspired ...

'' was entered into the

5th Moscow International Film Festival The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The fe ...

Selected filmography

* '' Special Mission'' (1959) * '' Five Days, Five Nights'' (1960) * ''

Reserved for the Death ''Reserved for the Death'' (german: Reserviert für den Tod) is an East German film. It was released in 1963. Plot Former East German engineer Erich Becker had been lured to West Germany by promises of a high reward. Now residing in Stockholm, he ...

'' (1963) * ''

Schwarzer Samt ''Schwarzer Samt'' (English language, English: ''Black Velvet'') is a German crime film from Heinz Thiel produced by the DEFA in the year 1964. Plot summary The Stasi, State Security Service detains the photographer Gwendoleit, who as courier wa ...

'' (1964) * ''

'' (1967) * ''

Hart am Wind ''Hart am Wind'' is an East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 Oc ...

'' (1970)

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