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Fritz Diez was a German actor, producer, director and theater manager. Grew up in a poor family, started earning a living as a boy. He was a newspaper salesman, moonlighted on tennis courts, then learned to be an electrician. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Meiningen. Upon graduation, he was an actor in provincial theaters in Eisenach, Hanau, Flensburg, Eger, Baden-Baden. Fritz Dietz adhered to leftist views, so he emigrated with his wife to Switzerland in 1935. Played in theaters in Switzerland. In 1946 he returned to Germany. He worked as a general manager, actor and theater director in Dresden. Since the early 1960s at the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin. In the cinema since 1952 - "Shadow over the Islands" (Arne Roge, 1952). In 1955, for the first time, he played the role of Adolf Hitler in the famous film "Ernst Thalmann - the leader of his class". In 1967, he played the role of Hitler in two films of the DEFA studio at once. Soviet film director Yuri Ozerov invited Fritz Dietz to play the role of Hitler in the film epic "Liberation", but the actor was tired of portraying this image both in theater and in cinema, he was afraid of becoming a hostage to one role, and refused. Only under the influence of Erich Honecker, Fritz Dietz was forced to give his final consent to the performance of the role so hated by him. Fritz Dietz - the best performer of the role of Hitler of the XX century. An accurate psychological characterization of the character, an inflated and, at the same time, realistic drawing of the character of the Nazi leader - those features of Fritz Dietz's game that allowed him to play Hitler convincingly and non-cartoonically in the film epic "Liberation" (1968-1970). He played Hitler in the television series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973), "Soldiers of Freedom" (1977) and other films. In 1980 Dietz's last film "Gluck im Hinterhaus" was released, in which he played the father of Karl Jägr.

Known For

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The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov

1995

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Backhouse Bliss

1980

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Adolf Hitler

Soldiers of Freedom

1977

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Hitler

Choice of Purpose

1975

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Neues aus der Florentiner 73

1974

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Der wunderbare Schatz

1973

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Adolf Hitler

Seventeen Moments of Spring

1973

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Hooray! We Have a Vacation!

1972

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Adolf Hitler

Liberation: The Last Assault

1971

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Liberation: The Battle of Berlin

1971

Credits

The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov

1995

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Backhouse Bliss

1980

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Soldiers of Freedom

as Adolf Hitler

1977

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Choice of Purpose

as Hitler

1975

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Neues aus der Florentiner 73

1974

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Der wunderbare Schatz

1973

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Seventeen Moments of Spring

as Adolf Hitler

1973

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Hooray! We Have a Vacation!

1972

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Liberation: The Last Assault

as Adolf Hitler

1971

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Liberation: The Battle of Berlin

1971

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Tscheljuskin

1970

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Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow

as Hitler

1970

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Liberation: Breakthrough

as Hitler

1969

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Rote Bergsteiger

as Kurt Kunst

1968

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Liberation: The Fire Bulge

as Adolf Hitler

1968

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I, Justice

as Hitler

1968

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Marketa Lazarová

as Armiger (voice)

1967

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Frozen Flashes

as Adolf Hitler

1967

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Flucht ins Schweigen

1966

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Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

as Nölle

1965

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Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort

as Hannemann

1965

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Carbide and Sorrel

1963

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Carl von Ossietzky

as Hellmut von Gerlach

1963

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Der Teufelstaler

1963

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Ein Mann und sein Schatten

1963

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Die Nacht an der Autobahn

1962

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Zwei Ziegen

as (voice)

1961

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Da helfen keine Pillen

as Narrator (voice)

1961

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Five Cartridges

as Major Balanos

1960

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Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt

1960

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Zu jeder Stunde

1960

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The Punch Bowl

1959

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Musterknaben

1959

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SAS 181 antwortet nicht

1959

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Ware für Katalonien

as Captain Gerner

1959

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Im Sonderauftrag

as Lieutenant Wegner

1959

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Thomas Müntzer

as Feldhauptmann Hoffmann

1956

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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

as Hitler

1955

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Jacke wie Hose

1953

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Schatten über den Inseln

1952

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