Peter Gorski

Peter Gorski, (born November 7, 1921) is a German film director. He was born in Berlin and later adopted by the German actor Gustaf Gründgens. He started his career in 1955 as the assistant director for the film "Reifende Jugend". In 1960 he directed the film "Faust", based on Goethe's "Faust" and adapted from the theater production at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. The film starred his adoptive father Gustav Gründgens as Mephistopheles, and was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. [cite web|url=http://www.filmportal.de/df/b8/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,A32DAF2EBD19469995A6E10E85BF89A6,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html|title=Faust|publisher=Filmportal.de|language=German|accessdate=2008-09-08] [cite web | author = H. G. Pflaum | title = On the history of the German candidates for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film | publisher = German Films | url = http://www.german-films.de/en/germanfilmsquaterly/previousissues/topicalsubjects/focuson/thetindrum-alonevictor/index.html | accessdate = 2008-08-27] The film also won Gorski a Deutscher Filmpreis for an "Outstanding Documentary or Cultural Film" in 1961.

In 1968 Peter Gorski as the sole heir sued the "Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung", which had published the novel "Mephisto" which was loosely based on the life of his adoptive father Gustav Gründgens. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Gründgens' personal freedom (Article 2 of the Basic Law) was more important than the freedom of art (Article 5).

Filmography

* "Faust" (1960), as director
* "Reifende Jugend" (1955), as assistant director

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