Wolfgang Staudte (9 October 1906 – 19 January 1984), born Georg Friedrich Staudte, was a German film director, script writer and actor. He was born in Saarbrücken. After 1945, Staudte also looked at German guilt in the cinema. Alongside Helmut Käutner, he was considered the only German post-war director of any standing who, after 1945, could look back on continuous artistic filmmaking far removed from Heimatfilm and the suppression of history. Staudte's films stood for politically committed cinema as well as for professional craftsmanship, for film art and (good) entertainment with a social claim. His most important work came in the ten years following World War II, in which he worked with the DEFA in East Germany. The main focus of his work was to highlight the limits of German national pride. His work in anti-Nazi films, such as Murderers Among Us (1946), was also a personal working-through of his film career under the Nazis (he acted in the anti-Semitic film Jud Süß). Following 1956, he worked in West Germany. By the 1970s, his work was no longer considered particularly modern and he moved to television. He appeared on shows such as Der Kommissar and Tatort. He is the great-uncle of the German-Iranian director and novelist Andy Siege. Filmography As director Film Bravo Acrobat! (1943) (1944) — based on a story by Johann von Vásáry (1944, lost film, rediscovered 1996) The Murderers Are Among Us (1946) The Adventures of Fridolin (1948) — remake of the lost film Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl Rotation (1949) Second Hand Destiny (1949) A Tale of Five Cities (1951, anthology film) Der Untertan (1951) — based on the novel Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann Poison in the Zoo (directed by Hans Müller, 1952) (premiere: 1952, Überläufer from 1945) Die Geschichte vom kleinen Muck (1953) — based on the fairy tale Little Muck by Wilhelm Hauff Leuchtfeuer (1954) Ciske de Rat (Dutch-language, 1955) — based on the novel Ciske de Rat by Piet Bakker Ciske – ein Kind braucht Liebe (German-language, 1955) — based on the novel Ciske de Rat by Piet Bakker Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1955, unfinished film) — based on Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children Rose Bernd (1957) — based on Rose Bernd by Gerhart Hauptmann Escape from Sahara (1958) (1958) — screenplay by Ennio de Concini, Duccio Tessari and W. Staudte The Muzzle (1958) — based on a