Fritz Diez
Date of birth: 1901-02-28
Place of birth: Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Фриц Диц
Biography
Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager. Grew up in a poor family, started earning a living as a boy. He was a newspaper salesman, moonlighted on tennis courts, then learned to be an electrician. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Meiningen. Upon graduation, he was an actor in provincial theaters in Eisenach, Hanau, Flensburg, Eger, Baden-Baden. Fritz Dietz adhered to leftist views, so he emigrated with his wife to Switzerland in 1935. Played in theaters in Switzerland. In 1946 he returned to Germany. He worked as a general manager, actor and theater director in Dresden. Since the early 1960s at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin. In the cinema since 1952 - "Shadow over the Islands" (Arne Roge, 1952). In 1955, for the first time, he played the role of Adolf Hitler in the famous film "Ernst Thalmann - the leader of his class". In 1967, he played the role of Hitler in two films of the DEFA studio at once. Soviet film director Yuri Ozerov invited Fritz Dietz to play the role of Hitler in the film epic "Liberation", but the actor was tired of portraying this image both in theater and in cinema, he was afraid of becoming a hostage to one role, and refused. Only under the influence of Erich Honecker, Fritz Dietz was forced to give his final consent to the performance of the role so hated by him. Fritz Dietz - the best performer of the role of Hitler of the XX century. An accurate psychological characterization of the character, an inflated and, at the same time, realistic drawing of the character of the Nazi leader - those features of Fritz Dietz's game that allowed him to play Hitler convincingly and non-cartoonically in the film epic "Liberation" (1968-1970). He played Hitler in the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973), "Soldiers of Freedom" (1977) and other films. In 1980 Dietz's last film "Gluck im Hinterhaus" was released, in which he played the father of Karl Jägr.
Movie Credits
Five Cartridges
1960-11-03
It is the year 1936 and the Spanish Civil War is raging. When the German commander of an internation
Die Nacht an der Autobahn
1962-09-16
A young doctor has to spend a night in a lonely house near the transit highway. Unexpectedly, he wit
Der wunderbare Schatz
1973-12-25
The Kazakh shepherd Bair finds a fabulous treasure in the steppe: a stone pot that doubles everythin
Marketa Lazarová
1967-11-24
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. Whi
Neues aus der Florentiner 73
1974-12-24
Brigitte is caught between two men: on the one hand there is the ambitious Klaus, the father of her
Der Teufelstaler
1963-06-28
Farmer Wurzel is unhappy because his work is not bringing him the prosperity he had hoped for. Nor c
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
1968-05-07
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the l
I, Justice
1968-04-12
At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War,
The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov
1995-05-01
Biopic about Marshal Georgi Zhukov. Documentary footage from WWII and dramatization played by Russia
Tscheljuskin
1970-11-01
In the 1930s, the Soviet ship "Chelyuskin" embarked on an expedition to the Northern Ocean. But soon
Liberation: Breakthrough
1969-05-08
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhi
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow
1970-10-21
This five part epic war drama gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi
Im Sonderauftrag
1959-01-03
A warship returning from a training exercise was tasked with apprehending an unknown schooner that h
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
1955-10-06
This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politici
Musterknaben
1959-11-27
Two young building workers are more interested in girls than their work; complications ensue at home
Frozen Flashes
1967-04-13
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are co
Ware für Katalonien
1959-03-06
At the end of the 1950s, the production of optics in the German Democratic Republic has reached top
Liberation: The Battle of Berlin
1971-11-04
In this the fourth episode, “Battle of Berlin,” the Soviets start their assault on Berlin, and Stali
Liberation: The Last Assault
1971-11-05
In Berlin, Lieutenant Yartsev's infantry and Tzvetaev's battery fight their way in the U-Bahn. Capta
Hooray! We Have a Vacation!
1972-09-01
A story about the friendship between the children from Soviet Union and East Germany.
Backhouse Bliss
1980-03-05
Karl Erp is a middle-aged man with two children and a boring marriage. After starting an exciting af
Thomas Müntzer
1956-05-16
In 1523, young Thomas Müntzer arrives with his wife Ottilie in the Thuringian village Allstedt to as
Carl von Ossietzky
1963-09-01
The film chronicles the last ten years in the life of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Carl von Ossietzky
The Punch Bowl
1959-12-04
It is the 65th birthday of Wilhelm Lehmann, foreman of a chemical company. All members of the large
SAS 181 antwortet nicht
1959-07-02
Kurt, an apprentice in a fish combine, is an ambitious loner. He wants to show what a good sailor he
Zu jeder Stunde
1960-01-29
The soldier Martin has been relocated to a small border village in Thuringia. During a storm, he com
Flucht ins Schweigen
1966-05-27
During construction work in a small town in Thuringia, the burial of an unidentified man in an SS un
Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt
1960-06-08
Film by Frank Vogel.
Jacke wie Hose
1953-04-29
Schatten über den Inseln
1952-05-15
On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them
Da helfen keine Pillen
1961-10-06
East German animation movie about an overweight pasha.
Carbide and Sorrel
1963-12-27
After the second World War, Dresden has a lot of reconstructing to do. To get the cigarette factory
Ein Mann und sein Schatten
1963-05-21
At a farm-equipment plant, production lags at 89 % and a new, untested combine proves a “failure” in
Zwei Ziegen
1961-10-13
In each of the valleys stretching to the sides of the river, a goat lives. Both animals consider the
Choice of Purpose
1975-12-21
A story of Igor Kurchatov - a father of Soviet nuclear weapons.