Zwei Mütter [SEP] director
Zwei Mütter
Zwei Mütter () is a 1957 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and based on a screenplay by Leonie Ossowski. The film was Frank Beyer's graduation film at the Film School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague. The film tells the story of two women, one French and the other German, who fight for a child who has been mistakenly taken by the Germans after a bomb raid. The film had a theatrical release and became a popular success with more than two million
he worked as an assistant director for Kurt Maetzig's two part film "Schlösser und Katen" with a special permission of his university. In 1957 he graduated from FAMU with the anti-war film "Zwei Mütter". Based on a screenplay by Leonie Ossowski, his diploma film tells the story of a French and a German mother that fight for a child that has been mistakenly taken by the German after a bomb raid. The film had a theatrical release and became a success.
Biography Beyer at the DEFA studios (