Frank Guthke
Frank Guthke (born July 1, 1928 in Leipzig ) is a German screenwriter and film producer , but above all a film director of numerous television films.
life and work
Guthke's work as a director began in the early 1960s with an assistant director on a television production of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet with Maximilian Schell in the title role.
In the 1960s and 1970s Guthke resulted in numerous other TV movies and short films directed as 1965 in a call for Mister Clark with Hannelore Schroth and Adolf Ziegler , and in 1968 Mr. deprived the honor are from Konrad Hansen , with Utz Richter in the title role. In 1970 he shot the television play The Death of Deputy Jean Jaurès with Wolfgang Büttner and Ernst Jacobi , in which he dramatized the murder of the French politician Jean Jaurès . In 1973, together with Christian-Jaque , he shot the Franco-German-Hungarian co-production of the adventure series Arpad, the Gypsies , which was broadcast on ZDF . For the “brittle-esoteric ZDF studio program” in 1974 (with Iris Berben ), the television play Abschied vom Abschied was made , the story of a Parisian art student who only learns of her husband's true identity after his accidental death. Guthke also staged a television version of the play Feinde by Maxim Gorki for ZDF in 1976 with Rolf Henniger , Margot Trooger and Pinkas Braun , for which he also co- wrote the script .
He received positive reviews in particular for his directorial work on the film Die Buddik (1983), a story in dialect from the Saarland , in which he presented the topic of age and getting older using the example of the 74-year-old widower Matz Uhl . The television film, with the theater actor and character actor Hans Elwenspoek in his last role, was shown for the first time on May 31, 1983 on ZDF. The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote in a film review : “Frank Guthke very carefully staged the hope of two people for a bit of commonality at the end of life. The dialect coloring only irritated for a few minutes, you quickly listened to it. ” More than 20 years after the first television broadcast, the film was shown again in cinemas for the first time in 2004 .
In 1989 he shot the thriller The Snow of the Andes with Constanze Engelbrecht , the story of a desperate mother who goes in search of her son who has disappeared in Latin America and who takes up the fight with the drug mafia .
In the period that followed, Frank Guthke became known primarily for his numerous other TV films for ZDF. In particular, he turned several episodes of the successful television series Lawyer Abel from 1988 to 1994 .
In the two-part television film Ich klage an , shot for SAT1 in 1993 , he takes up the authentic case of a three-year-old boy who disappeared in the Harz region on the German-German border in 1984 , whose parents (played by Thekla Carola Wied and Peter Sattmann ) did not search for their son give up and get targeted by the Ministry of State Security . Thekla Carola Wied received the Bavarian TV Prize for her performance . The film magazine Cinema judged: "A well-behaved, but attractive production with believable actors and simply an exciting story."
In 1995 Guthke addressed the topic of organ donation in the television film I am innocent - Doctor in Twilight , in which Suzanne von Borsody played a doctor who illegally removes organs to save the life of an 18-year-old boy.
Occasionally Guthke also worked as a theater director . In 1985 he directed the play The Twelve Jurors by Reginald Rose at the Theater im Zimmer in Hamburg . In the 1985/1986 season, he directed the comedy Achterloo by Friedrich Dürrenmatt with Ruth Hausmeister , Horst Keitel and Herta Kravina at the Théâtre d'Esch in Esch-sur-Alzette .
Filmography
As a producer
- 1959: For the First Time
As a screenwriter
- 1976: Enemies (TV)
As an assistant director
- 1961: Armored Command
- 1961: Hamlet (TV), ie: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- 1963: Captain Sindbad
As a film director
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Web links
- Frank Guthke in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Frank Guthke at vollfilm.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1974, p. 103 ( online ).
- ↑ Revival of “Die Buddik - a story from St. Ingbert” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: St. Ingberter Anzeiger of March 12, 2004
- ↑ I ACTION in: Cinema
- ↑ Theater Today , 1985
- ^ Théâtre d'Esch - 1985-86 season ( Memento of March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Official website of Guy Wagner
- ↑ LAWYER ABEL - RELEASE ME THIS KILLER / Frank Guthke U.S. Library of Congress
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| SURNAME | Guthke, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German director, screenwriter and film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |