| Gottfried Kolditz | |
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| Born | 14 December 1922 Altenbach, Germany |
| Died | 15 May 1982 (aged 59) Ljubljana, Yugoslavia |
Gottfried Kolditz (14 December 1922 – 15 June 1982[1]) was a German movie actor and director.
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Kolditz was born in Altenbach, Germany[1] to a poor agricultural family. Between 1945 and 1949 he studied German philology at the University of Leipzig, and took a course of direction and acting in 1947–1949 at the Leipzig Higher School of Music and Drama. Since the early 1950s he worked as an actor and director at various theaters in the East.
Since 1955 he has cooperated with the studio DEFA (German DEFA, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), which makes films of different genres: fairy tales ("Ms. Blizzard," the story of the same name by the Brothers Grimm), adventure films, science fiction ("Signals" and "B dust of stars" on subjects similar to Space Odyssey 2001). He writes the scripts for his own works and also for other directors. He received wide acclaim as a director of the loop on Indian themes vestrenov DEfA studio with actor Gojko Mitić: "Next Falcon", "Apache" and "Ulzana."
He died in 1982 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (Slovenia)[1] in preparation for shooting a new film on his own script, "Chief White Feather," which was later completed by another director.
His son, Stephen Kolditts (born 1956), is a novelist and playwright.