Peter WeissFilmography

Born:
November 8, 1916
Occupation:
Actor, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:
Peter Weiss made several avant-garde short films in post-war Sweden. Before becoming a filmmaker, Weiss had been known in Germany as a playwright who penned such controversial productions as The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton...Read More

  • Die Zweite Heimat - Chronik einer Jugend

    Actors: Henry Arnold, Anke Sevenich, Daniel Smith, Michael Schonborn

    Synopsis: In 1984, the director of this extraordinarily long film (25+ hours) released a similarly long film, Heimat, which was a mere 15 hours long. Both of them are essentially television miniseries that have been edited for festival viewing into one enormously long film. In this sequel, Die Zweite Heimat Read More

    1992

  • Telefon

    Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel

    Synopsis: Don Siegel took over the directing chores from Peter Hyams on this taut cold war action film, based on the novel by Walter Wager. With the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union thawing, old KGB hard-liner Nicolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence) activates a group of Americans who Read More

    1977

  • The Man from Atlantis

    Actors: Patrick Duffy

    Synopsis: In this TV pilot that spawned a brief series on NBC during 1977-78, Patrick Duffy plays the title character--an amphibian/human, equipped with gills--who washes up on shore and is taken to the hospital to recover. When the American government finds out his identity, it recruits him to help in the Read More

    1977

  • Marat / Sade

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Ian Richardson, Patrick Magee, Ruth Baker, Glenda Jackson, Brenda Kempner, Clifford Rose, Freddie Jones, Michael Williams

    Synopsis: Adapted from his own Royal Shakespeare Company production of Peter Weiss' play entitled The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Peter Brook directs this fascinating look into revolution, power, and Read More

    1966

  • Indecent

    Synopsis: In this mystery, a German reporter looks into the death of a nightclub singer. His investigations reveal more than murder when he discovers a white slave ring operating between Marseilles and Tangeiers. More trouble ensues when he falls in love with one of the intended slaves. This inspires him to Read More

    1962

  • Hagringen

    Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss

    Synopsis: Better visually than intellectually, this murky, avant-garde film by director Peter Weiss cetners on an idealistic, sensitive young man (Staffan Lamm) who heads into the big city trying to find a job somewhere. As he goes along his way, images of the city and its life forms bombard his senses but Read More

    1960

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