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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 Naz
Beyer in 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.
Naked Among Wolves is a 1963 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Erwin Geschonneck and Armin Mueller-Stahl. The film is based on author Bruno Apitz's 1958 novel by the same name. The
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…experimental film made extensive use of flashbacks and extreme angles of view to express the emotions of the characters. His next project was the 1963 film Naked Among Wolves based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Bruno Apitz. The film told the story of prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp who risk their lives…
The premiere of Naked Among Wolves. Colosseum cinema, East Berlin, 10 April 1963.
Beyer speaks with Mark Donskoy before the screening of Naked Among Wolves in the Moscow Film Festival.
The Buchenwald Group, a bronze statue by Fritz Cremer in the Memorial Site of the former concentration camp.