Biography
Slatan Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director, who worked in Weimar Germany and later East Germany. Influenced by revolutionary ideas, Dudow moved to Berlin in 1922. He gave up his plan to study architecture and studied theater from 1925 to 1926. He worked with Leopold Jessner and Juergen Fehling and was a chorus member under Erwin Piscator. But it was a trip to Moscow, where he met Majakowski and Eisenstein, that proved to be the most influential for his career. After his return from Moscow, Dudow directed Brecht's theater piece Die Massnahme, while beginning his film career. He was commissioned to produce the film Wie der Berliner Arbeiter wohnt (1929) as part of the documentary series Wie lebt der Berliner Arbeiter? To Whom Does the World Belong? (1932) was originally banned because it was perceived as an insult to the Weimar Republic's president, judiciary, and religion. Dudow was arrested several times by the Nazis after 1933; he was imprisoned in 1939, but soon escaped to France and then Switzerland. In 1946, he returned to Berlin and worked as a director at the DEFA studios.
Filmography
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Movies 14
Director 12
self 1
Writer 1
Slatan Dudow: A Film Essay about a Marxist Artist (1975)
Christine (1963)
Verwirrung der Liebe (1959)
Der Hauptmann von Köln (1956)
Stronger Than the Night (1954)
Destinies of Women (1952)
The Benthin Family (1950)
Immer bereit (1950)
Our Daily Bread (1949)
Seifenblasen (1935)
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
How the Berlin Worker Lives (1930)
Rot Sport marschiert (1930)
Metropolis (1927)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1903-01-30
Deathday1963-07-12 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceDimitrovgrad, Serbia, Serbia
CitizenshipsGerman Democratic Republic, Bulgaria
Also Known AsZlatan Dudov, Златан Дудов
AwardsPatriotic Order of Merit in bronze, National Prize of East Germany
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