Slatan Dudow
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Slatan Theodor Dudow was a Bulgarian born film director and screenwriter who made a number of films in the Weimar Republic and East Germany. Dudow was born in Zaribrod, Bulgaria on January 30, 1903 and died in Berlin on July 12, 1963.
Influenced by left wing ideas, Dudow emigrated to Berlin in 1922 with the intention of becoming an architect. He gave up this plan and studied theatre from 1925 to 1926,working with Leopold Jessner and Juergen Fehling and serving as a chorus member under Erwin Piscator. He later undertook a visit to the Soviet Union, where he met Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Eisenstein in Moscow. After his return from the USSR, Dudow directed Bertholt Brecht's theatrical piece Die Massnahme, and began his film directing 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? Kuhle Wampe (To Whom Does the World Belong?)(1932), his first feature film, was a collaboration with Brecht who provided the script and helped to finance the project. It was originally banned because it was perceived politically subversive.
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
- Current Problems: How the Worker Lives (Zeitprobleme: Wie der Arbeiter wohnt) 1930;
- To Whom Does the World Belong? (Kuhle Wampe, oder Wem gehoert die Welt?) 1932;
- Soap-Bubbles (Seifenblasen) 1934;
- Our Daily Bread (Unser taeglich Brot) 1949;
- Family Bethin (Familie Bethin) 1950;
- The Destinies of Women (Frauenschicksale) 1952;
- Stronger than the Night (Staerker als die Nacht) 1954;
- The Captain of Cologne (Der Hauptmann von Koeln) 1956;
- Confusion of Love (Verwirrung der Liebe) 1959; Christine (unfinished) 1963.
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