Frank Beyer

Frank Beyer was born in 1932 in Nobitz, in Thuringia, the son of an office clerk and a shop assistant. An assistant and dramaturg at the theatre in Crimmitschau and Glauchau, he then studied directing at the film school in Prague and in 1957 joined DEFA, where he made his first film the same year. Sidelined from cinema after a ban in 1966, he worked for the theatre in Dresden, then for television, before returning to DEFA in 1974; there he directed the only East German film ever nominated for an Oscar. After reunification he worked mostly for television. He died in Berlin in 2006.

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• CinemaTrace of StonesSpur der SteineFrank Beyer · 1966Cinema