Frank Beyer
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Frank Paul Beyer was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film Trace of Stones was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED. His 1975 film Jacob the Liar was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films.
Frank Beyer 5 October 1963
Frank Beyer, Herbert Köfer and Bruno Apitz on the set of Naked Among Wolves.
Vlastimil Brodský (second from the left) and Frank Beyer (middle) before the premiere of Jacob the Liar at the Kosmos film theater in East Berlin.
Frank Beyer (left) receives the Heinrich-Greif-Preis for The Turning Point.
DEFA
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DEFA was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic throughout the country's existence.
Founding congress of DEFA Studio, Berlin, May 1946
DEFA feature film studios, Babelsberg, Potsdam, July 1952
Two Young Pioneers examine the brochure for the DEFA children's film Die Störenfriede (The Trobulemakers) before a screening, July 1953