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Helmut Weiss

{{short description|German actor, filmmaker}}

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| name = Helmut Weiss

| birth_date = {{birth date|1907|1|25|df=y}}

| birth_place = Göttingen, Lower Saxony
German Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|1|13|1907|1|25|df=y}}

| death_place = West Berlin, West Germany

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| occupation = Actor, Screenwriter, Film Director

| yearsactive = 1935–1969

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Helmut Weiss (January 25, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was a German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was notable for directing Tell the Truth, the first film produced after the Second World War in what was to become West Germany . It was made in Hamburg in the British Zone of Occupation.{{sfn|Kreimeier|p=375}} Much of the film had already been made at the UFA studios in Berlin shortly before the arrival of the Red Army, but Weiss dramatically re-shot it. The film was significant in its use of outdoor locations in common with other post-war rubble films.

Selected filmography

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References

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Bibliography

  • {{cite book | ref = {{sfnref|Kreimeier}} | last = Kreimeier | first = Klaus | title = The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945 | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1999 | location = Berkeley | isbn = 978-0-520-22069-0 }}

External links

  • {{IMDb name|0919012}}

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Category:1907 births

Category:1969 deaths

Category:German male film actors

Category:Actors from Göttingen

Category:20th-century German male actors

Category:Male actors from Lower Saxony

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