Film director, born in Nobitz, EC Germany. After studying film direction in Prague, he went on to make the feature films Die Mütter (1957, The Mothers), Nackt unter Wölfen (1963, Naked Among Wolves), and Die Spur der Steine (1966, The Trail of the Stones). His best-known work is Jakob der Lügner (1974, Jacob the Liar), which was the only East German film to receive an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 he made Nikolaikirche, a television film based on a novel by Erich Loest. Other work for television included Geschlossene Gesellschaft (1978) and Ende der Unschuld (1991). He received the German Film Prize for his life's work in 1991.
Frank Beyer (26 May 1932, Nobitz, Germany - 1 October 2006, Berlin) was a German film director.
He studied theatre science and worked as a director for small plays before studying film at the Prager film school.
His later work came increasingly under the censorship of East Germany, culminating in the outright ban of 1966's Spur der Steine (starring Manfred Krug) three days after its release.
After 1989, his work was mainly produced for television, working with writers such as Carl Zuckmayer and Erich Loest.
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