Directing
Peter Pewas
Born — Died
1904-04-22 — 1984-09-13
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
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Directing
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April 22, 1904, in Berlin, made an apprenticeship as a metal worker after finishing school and worked in his job in Czechoslovakia and in Austria. In 1920, he went to Weimar"s Bauhaus for nine months and studied under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. From 1933 on, Pewas worked as a freelance commercial artist and created film posters and movie theatre adverts. In 1932, Pewas started a documentary film project about Alexanderplatz but was arrested by the Gestapo during filming in 1934 and his footage was confiscated. Suspected of high treason, Pewas was sent to jail twice. After his release, he continued to work as a commercial artist in the movie business. Then, Pewas …
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German Film Award
1951
10.0Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
Pankow ’95
1983
10.0Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Herbstgedanken
1951
10.0Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three people were directly involved and in which twelve-year-old cyclist Dieter Pahl was killed.
Kennzeichen Luftballon
1967
Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.
Eine Stunde
1941
9.0This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.
The Enchanted Day
1944
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Behind the camera
10.0Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Herbstgedanken
1951
10.0Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Herbstgedanken
1951
10.0Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three people were directly involved and in which twelve-year-old cyclist Dieter Pahl was killed.
Kennzeichen Luftballon
1967
10.0Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three people were directly involved and in which twelve-year-old cyclist Dieter Pahl was killed.
Kennzeichen Luftballon
1967
Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.
Eine Stunde
1941
Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.
Eine Stunde
1941
9.0This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.
The Enchanted Day
1944
9.0This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.
The Enchanted Day
1944
Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.
Wohin Johanna?
1946
Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.
Wohin Johanna?
1946
7.3The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end becoming involved with a circle of rich people who sell goods for sexual favours.
Street Acquaintances
1948
A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.
Menschen - Städte - Schienen
1949
A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.
Menschen - Städte - Schienen
1949
6.4Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.
Many Passed By
1956
A melancholic portrait of the last hours of an old man.
Vormittag eines alten Herrn
1962
A melancholic portrait of the last hours of an old man.
Vormittag eines alten Herrn
1962
NRThese fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlin’s Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores, but also children playing unsupervised amid the rubble of vacant lots, passers-by trudging hurriedly through the slush, and a torchlight procession of Nazi storm troopers – a heterogeneous social reality. The film was never completed because the director was arrested by the Gestapo and the footage seized.
Alexanderplatz Unawares
1934
10.0Romance stories with large inserts of war documents.
Er ging an meiner Seite
1958
9.0Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.
Der nackte Morgen
1956
9.0Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.
Der nackte Morgen
1956
Short "Fragezeichenfilm" about work.
Beruf oder Job?
1961

