Günter Reisch

{{Short description|German film director and screenwriter}}

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| name = Günter Reisch

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|11|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Berlin, Germany

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|2|24|1927|11|24|df=yes}}

| death_place = Berlin, Germany

| othername =

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1951–1990

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Günter Reisch (24 November 1927 – 24 February 2014) was a German film director and screenwriter.{{cite web |author=Süddeutsche.de GmbH, Munich, Germany |url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/news/kultur/film-defa-regisseur-guenter-reisch-gestorben-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-140225-99-05089 |title=DEFA-Regisseur Günter Reisch gestorben - Kultur-News - Süddeutsche.de |publisher=Sueddeutsche.de |date= |accessdate=2014-02-25 |archive-date=2014-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302082918/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/news/kultur/film-defa-regisseur-guenter-reisch-gestorben-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-140225-99-05089 |url-status=dead }} He served in the German Army during the last stage of World War II. On 20 April 1944 he became a member of the Nazi Party. After his release from an American POW camp, he returned to Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone and joined the Free German Youth and later the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. He started working with theater and film and became one of East Germany's most prominent film makers. He made 20 films, including the two Karl Liebknecht films. His 1978 film Anton the Magician was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |title=11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) |accessdate=2013-01-15 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210417/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |archivedate=2013-01-16 }}