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Fritz Diez
Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
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 te…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
- 1995
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1980
Backhouse Bliss
Movie
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1977
Soldiers of Freedom
TV show Adolf Hitler
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1975
Choice of Purpose
Movie Hitler
- 1974
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1973
Der wunderbare Schatz
Movie
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1973
Seventeen Moments of Spring
TV show Adolf Hitler
- 1972
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1971
Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
Movie Hitler
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1971
Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
Movie Hitler
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1971
Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
Movie Hitler
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1970
Tscheljuskin
Movie
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1970
Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
Movie Hitler
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1970
Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
Movie Hitler
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1968
Rote Bergsteiger
TV show Kurt Kunst
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1968
I, Justice
Movie Hitler
More credits
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1967
Marketa Lazarová
Movie Armiger (voice)
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1967
Frozen Flashes
Movie Adolf Hitler
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1966
Flucht ins Schweigen
Movie
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1965
Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
TV show Nölle
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1963
Carbide and Sorrel
Movie
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1963
Carl von Ossietzky
Movie Hellmut von Gerlach
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1963
Der Teufelstaler
Movie
- 1963
- 1962
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1961
Zwei Ziegen
Movie (voice)
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1961
Da helfen keine Pillen
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1960
Five Cartridges
Movie Major Balanos
- 1960
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1960
Zu jeder Stunde
Movie
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1959
The Punch Bowl
Movie
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1959
Musterknaben
Movie
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1959
SAS 181 antwortet nicht
Movie
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1959
Ware für Katalonien
Movie Captain Gerner
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1959
Im Sonderauftrag
Movie Lieutenant Wegner
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1956
Thomas Müntzer
Movie Feldhauptmann Hoffmann
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1955
Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Movie Hitler
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1953
Jacke wie Hose
Movie
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1952
Schatten über den Inseln
Movie
