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April 22, 1904, in Berlin, made an apprenticeship as a metal worker after finishing school and worked in his job in Czechoslovakia and in Austria. In 1920, he went to Weimar"s Bauhaus for nine months and studied under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. From 1933 on, Pewas worked as a freelance commercial artist and created film posters and movie theatre adverts.
In 1932, Pewas started a documentary film project about Alexanderplatz but was arrested by the Gestapo during filming in 1934 and his footage was confiscated. Suspected of high treason, Pewas was sent to jail twice. After his release, he continued to work as a commercial artist in the movie business.
Then, Pewas started to study directing at film academy and worked as an assistant director for Wolfgang Liebeneiner"s films "Bismarck" (1940) und "Ich klage an" ("Accuse, I", 1941). In 1942, he worked for Tobis and made the short films "Eine Stunde" und "Zweiklang". In 1943, Pewas finished his first feature-length film for Terra, the heavily stylized elegiac melodrama "Der verzauberte Tag" – a film that in its aesthetics was diametrically opposed against contemporary fashion. The film was accused of "cultural Bolshevism" and eventually banned for alleged "contempt" against Germany"s lower middle class and for several nude scenes in October 1944. After the end of the war, Peter Pewas served as district mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf for several months before he became one of the founders of DEFA in Babelsberg. In 1947, he finished the successful sex education film "Straßenbekanntschaft" ("Street Acquaintances") that today ranks among the most influential "rubble films", for DEFA.
Most Popular Peter Pewas Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
13 April 1948
The film centres around the young woman Erika, desperately seeking for love and escape from the depression of the times, drifting, and in the end becoming involved with a circle of rich people who sell goods for sexual favours.
03 May 1956
Attempted murder told from three perspectives: that of the offender, the (prospective) victim and the investigating officer.
23 June 1959
High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft.
27 October 1983
Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
30 November 1934
These fragments of a documentary film project by Peter Pewas about Berlin’s Alexanderplatz show the neon signs on the big department stores, but also children playing unsupervised amid the rubble of vacant lots, passers-by trudging hurriedly through the slush, and a torchlight procession of Nazi storm troopers – a heterogeneous social reality.
03 April 1967
Based on court records, this award-winning documentary feature film directed by Peter Pewas reconstructs a traffic accident in Essen in which three people were directly involved and in which twelve-year-old cyclist Dieter Pahl was killed.
01 January 1961
Short "Fragezeichenfilm" about work.
28 February 1962
A melancholic portrait of the last hours of an old man.
21 April 1985
An intimate portrait of filmmaker Peter Pewas.
04 December 1956
Hamburg awakens to a new morning in Peter Pewas short film.
06 October 1949
A train journey from the Alps to the North Sea through post-war Germany.
01 October 1946
Commissioned by the newly founded SED for the first regional elections (October 1946) in the Soviet occupation zone.
06 July 1944
This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment .
01 January 1941
Tobis studio short film by Peter Pewas that wasn't intended for theatrical release.
11 June 1951
Poetic short film by Peter Pewas, inspired by a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.
13 June 1958
Romance stories with large inserts of war documents.
