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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.

The Great Commander Georgy Zhukov

Backhouse Bliss

Soldiers of Freedom
as Adolf Hitler

Choice of Purpose
as Hitler

Neues aus der Florentiner 73

Der wunderbare Schatz

Seventeen Moments of Spring
as Adolf Hitler

Hooray! We Have a Vacation!

Liberation - Part 4 : The Battle of Berlin
as Hitler

Liberation - Part 5 : The Last Assault
as Hitler

Liberation - Part 3 : Direction of the Main Blow
as Hitler

Tscheljuskin

Liberation - Part 1 : The Fire Bulge
as Hitler

Liberation - Part 2 : Breakthrough
as Hitler
Rote Bergsteiger
as Kurt Kunst

I, Justice
as Hitler

Marketa Lazarová
as Armiger (voice)

Frozen Flashes
as Adolf Hitler

Flucht ins Schweigen

Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort
as Nölle

Carbide and Sorrel

Carl von Ossietzky
as Hellmut von Gerlach

Der Teufelstaler
Ein Mann und sein Schatten

Die Nacht an der Autobahn
Zwei Ziegen
as (voice)
Da helfen keine Pillen
as Narrator (voice)

Five Cartridges
as Major Balanos

Die Entscheidung des Dr. Ahrendt

Zu jeder Stunde

The Punch Bowl

Musterknaben

SAS 181 antwortet nicht

Ware für Katalonien
as Captain Gerner

Im Sonderauftrag
as Lieutenant Wegner

Thomas Müntzer
as Feldhauptmann Hoffmann

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
as Hitler

Jacke wie Hose

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