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Karl Plintzner

German cinematographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2022
Entity authorityQ6372156 ↗
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Karl Plintzner (1911–1975) was a German cinematographer. He worked largely for DEFA, the state-owned East German studio.

Selected filmography

Blum Affair (1948)

The Marriage of Figaro (1949)

The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950)

The Last Year (1951)

Stärker als die Nacht (1954)

The Singing Ringing Tree (1957)

Intrigue and Love (1959)

Erich Kubak (1959)

New Year's Eve Punch (1960)

Bibliography

Poss, Ingrid & Warnecke, Peter. Spur der Filme: Zeitzeugen über die DEFA. Ch. Links Verlag, 2006.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1911, 1975, 1948, 1949—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-10-20. The account is most persuasive where Karl, Plintzner and German can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Karl Plintzner” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.