Adolf Despite
Adolf Pots (born September 6, 1895 in Janów , Upper Silesia , today Poland ; †?) Was a German film director and screenwriter .
Life
Despite studied pharmacy and philosophy. After completing his studies, he went to film. In addition to films with a documentary background such as Raid and The City of Millions , he has repeatedly directed feature films that show a preference for legal and sex education topics. At the beginning of the sound film age he directed the elaborate historical strips Elisabeth of Austria and Rasputin .
The coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 ended his filmmaking in the German Reich. His film Ways to a Good Marriage was banned in 1936 because it portrayed marriage as individual happiness, but proclaimed "nothing of racial instinct and racial awareness, nothing of species-conscious choice of spouse and the happiness of the blessing of children, which is an indispensable requirement for every good marriage". Despite went to Spain, where he made a few films until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Resident in Rome since November of the same year, in the summer of 1937, the last time they heard of a synchronous activity, he lost his trace.
Filmography
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- ↑ Doc. 5670 / February 29, 1936 according to archive link ( Memento of February 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Kay Less : In life, more is taken from you than given… . Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8
Web links
- Adolf Trotz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Despite, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Janów |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |