Biography
April 22, 1904, in Berlin, made an apprenticeship as a metal worker after finishing school and worked in his job in Czechoslovakia and in Austria. In 1920, he went to Weimar"s Bauhaus for nine months and studied under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. From 1933 on, Pewas worked as a freelance commercial artist and created film posters and movie theatre adverts. In 1932, Pewas started a documentary film project about Alexanderplatz but was arrested by the Gestapo during filming in 1934 and his footage was confiscated. Suspected of high treason, Pewas was sent to jail twice. After his release, he continued to work as a commercial artist in the movie business. Then, Pewas started to study directing at film academy and worked as an assistant director for Wolfgang Liebeneiner"s films "Bismarck" (1940) und "Ich klage an" ("Accuse, I", 1941). In 1942, he worked for Tobis and made the short films "Eine Stunde" und "Zweiklang". In 1943, Pewas finished his first feature-length film for Terra, the heavily stylized elegiac melodrama "Der verzauberte Tag" – a film that in its aesthetics was diametrically opposed against contemporary fashion. The film was accused of "cultur…
Directed
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Many Passed By (1956) — Director
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Street Acquaintances (1948) — Director
- Eine Stunde (1941) — Director
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The Enchanted Day (1944) — Director
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Er ging an meiner Seite (1958) — Director
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Herbstgedanken (1951) — Director
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Der nackte Morgen (1956) — Director
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Kennzeichen Luftballon (1967) — Director
- Beruf oder Job? (1961) — Director
- Wohin Johanna? (1946) — Director
- Menschen - Städte - Schienen (1949) — Director
- Vormittag eines alten Herrn (1962) — Director
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Alexanderplatz Unawares (1934) — Director
