Hans-Joachim Kasprzik
Hans -Joachim Kasprzik ( born August 14, 1928 in Bytom, † October 10, 1997 in Berlin) was a German film director and screenwriter who worked especially for the DEFA.
Life
Hans -Joachim Kasprzik began his career in the 1950s at the DEFA as an assistant director. One of his first films in 1954 Carola Lamberti - One of the circus. Other major films with his participation were for example Cheated Maguires (1957) and The Silent Star ( 1960). With the TV movie Directed by night in 1960 Kasprzik realized his first film as a director and screenwriter. The realized in the 1966 film Hands up or I'll shoot with Rolf Herricht in the lead role was named after the XI. Plenum of the Central Committee of the SED prohibited and experienced only in 2009 his movie premiere.
Frequently Kasprzik devoted to contemporary history, rare historical materials. Important work, to which he often wrote the screenplays and have mostly been realized as a miniseries for television of the GDR, are Wolf Among Wolves (1964 ), Little Man - what now? (1967) and Farewell to Peace ( 1979). Probably the best-known work was Kasprziks the miniseries Saxony shine and Prussia's Glory (1983 /87), in which his daughter Anne Kasprik one of the roles portrayed.