Kurt Maetzig, pioneering East German filmmaker, dies at 101 Kurt Maetzig, one of East Germany’s pioneering filmmakers, died on August 8 at his home in the village of Wildkuhl, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in what used to be East Germany. Maetzig was 101. According to the New York Times obit, at first the half-Jewish Kurt Maetzig (born Jan. 25, 1911, in Berlin) made films that "scrutinized anti-Semitism, corporate complicity with fascism and other fault lines in German society that had opened the way to Nazi rule." Among Maetzig’s 30 narrative and documentary features are Marriage in the Shadows (1947), Council of the Gods (1950), The Sailor’s Song [...]...
- 9/6/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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