Directing

Peter Pewas

Born — Died

1904-04-22 — 1984-09-13

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

24 titles

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 …

Known for

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Herbstgedanken poster
10.0

Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Herbstgedanken

1951

Herbstgedanken poster
10.0

Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Herbstgedanken

1951

Kennzeichen Luftballon poster
10.0

Based 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

Kennzeichen Luftballon poster
10.0

Based 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

No artwork available
5.0

Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.

Eine Stunde

1941

No artwork available
5.0

Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.

Eine Stunde

1941

The Enchanted Day poster
9.0

This 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

The Enchanted Day poster
9.0

This 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

No artwork available
NR

Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.

Wohin Johanna?

1946

No artwork available
NR

Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.

Wohin Johanna?

1946

Street Acquaintances poster
7.3

The 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

No artwork available
NR

A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.

Menschen - Städte - Schienen

1949

No artwork available
NR

A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.

Menschen - Städte - Schienen

1949

Many Passed By poster
6.4

Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.

Many Passed By

1956

No artwork available
NR

A melancholic portrait of the last hours of an old man.

Vormittag eines alten Herrn

1962

No artwork available
NR

A melancholic portrait of the last hours of an old man.

Vormittag eines alten Herrn

1962

Alexanderplatz Unawares poster
NR

These 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

Er ging an meiner Seite poster
10.0

Romance stories with large inserts of war documents.

Er ging an meiner Seite

1958

Der nackte Morgen poster
9.0

Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.

Der nackte Morgen

1956

Der nackte Morgen poster
9.0

Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.

Der nackte Morgen

1956

No artwork available
NR

Short "Fragezeichenfilm" about work.

Beruf oder Job?

1961