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Peter Pewas

Peter Pewas

Director

April 22, 1904, in Berlin, made an apprenticeship as a metal worker after finishing school and worked in his job in Czechoslovakia and in Austria. In 1920, he went to Weimar"s Bauhaus for nine months and studied under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. From 1933 on, Pewas worked as a freelance commercial artist and created film posters and movie theatre adverts. In 1932, Pewas started a documentary film project about Alexanderplatz but was arrested by the Gestapo during filming in 1934 and his footage was confiscated. Suspected of high treason, Pewas was sent to jail twice. After his release, he continued to work as a commercial artist in the movie business. Then, Pewas started to study directing at film academy and worked as an assistant director for Wolfgang Liebeneiner"s films "Bismarck" (1940) und "Ich klage an" ("Accuse, I", 1941). In 1942, he worked for Tobis and made the short films "Eine Stunde" und "Zweiklang". In 1943, Pewas finished his first feature-length film for Terra, the heavily stylized elegiac melodrama "Der verzauberte Tag" – a film that in its aesthetics was diametrically opposed against contemporary fashion. The film was accused of "cultural Bolshevism" and eventually banned for alleged "contempt" against Germany"s lower middle class and for several nude scenes in October 1944. After the end of the war, Peter Pewas served as district mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf for several months before he became one of the founders of DEFA in Babelsberg. In 1947, he finished the successful sex education film "Straßenbekanntschaft" ("Street Acquaintances") that today ranks among the most influential "rubble films", for DEFA.

Born: April 22, 1904 in Berlin, Germany

Died: September 13, 1984 (Age 80)

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Peter Pewas  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
TV Show
DirectorSelf
1 Episode
1951
Short Film
Director1985
Movie
7.3
DirectingDirector1948
Movie
6.9
DirectingDirector1956
Movie
7.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1944
Movie
DirectingDirector1958
Short Film
DirectingDirector, Writer1952
Short Film
5.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1940
Short Film
6.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1949
Short Film
7.1
DirectingDirector, Writer1967
Short Film
8.1
DirectingDirector, Writer1958
Short Film
7.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1962
Short Film
6.6
DirectingDirector, Writer1946
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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