Frank Beyer
Frank Paul Beyer
Birthday	Thursday, May 26, 1932
Birthplace	Nobitz, Germany
Died	Sunday, October 01, 2006
Occupation	Film director

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Beyer, Frank

Born May 26,1932, in Nobitz. German film director (German Democratic Republic).

In 1955, Beyer completed bis studies at the film faculty of the Prague Academy of Arts and now works in the GDR. In 1957 he made his directing debut with the film Two Mothers. Beyer’s work is devoted to the important problems of contemporary reality, including the portrayal of the resistance movement during World War II. Among his films which have received prizes at international film festivals are The Royal Children (1962) and Naked Among Wolves (1963, after the book of the same name by B. Apitz). He also directed the films Five Cartridge Cases (1960, H. Greif Prize) about the perseverance of the soldiers of a detachment in the International Brigade fighting in Spain during the years 1936–39, the comedy Carbide and Sorrel (1964), and others. He was awarded the National Prize of the GDR (1963).

References in periodicals archive

Its importance can be attributed above all to the impact of Bruno Apitz's best-selling novel Nackt unter Wolfen (1958) and a film version of the same name directed by Frank Beyer (1963).

The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction, and Propaganda

Frank Beyer, a German director who fell in and out of favor with Communist East German leaders before his 1975 drama "Jakob the Liar" became the first and only East Germany film nominated for the foreign-language Academy Award, died Oct.

Frank Beyer

His attempt, together with Frank Beyer, to produce a film entitledyakob der Lugner in the mid- 1960s, before the novel of the same name appeared, did not fail because of SED opposition to the theme or to Beyer, who had been criticized for his 1966 film Spur der Steine, but because of a lack of co-operation from authorities in Poland, where the film was to be shot, possibly because of a degree of anti-Semitism there.

Stasi--Zensur--Machtdiskurse: Publikationsgeschichten and Materialien zu Jurek Beckers Werk

This was the East German film org that turned out a raft of pictures, most of them heavily propagandist in tone, but with directors like Konrad Wolf and Frank Beyer displaying a talent for storytelling that often transcended their somber material.

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