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Peter Pewas

Born April 22, 1904 · Berlin, Germany

Died September 13, 1984 · aged 80

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 …

Known For

Street AcquaintancesStreet Acquaintances · 1948
Street Acquaintances
★ 7.31948
MovieDrama
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.
Pankow ’95Pankow ’95 · 1983
Pankow ’95
★ 10.01983
MovieScience Fiction
Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
Plötzlich ist das Ende daPlötzlich ist das Ende da · 1985
Plötzlich ist das Ende da
1985
MovieDocumentary
An intimate portrait of filmmaker Peter Pewas.
HerbstgedankenHerbstgedanken · 1951
Herbstgedanken
★ 10.01951
Movie
Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
The Enchanted DayThe Enchanted Day · 1944
The Enchanted Day
★ 9.01944
MovieRomanceDrama
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.
Alexanderplatz UnawaresAlexanderplatz Unawares · 1934
Alexanderplatz Unawares
1934
MovieDocumentary
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.
Kennzeichen LuftballonKennzeichen Luftballon · 1967
Kennzeichen Luftballon
★ 10.01967
MovieDramaDocumentary
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.
Many Passed ByMany Passed By · 1956
Many Passed By
★ 6.41956
MovieCrime
Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.

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