Heinz Thiel (10 May 1920 – 9 March 2003) was a German

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. He directed more than 20 films between 1956 and 1977. His 1967 film ''

Bread and Roses "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated from a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen M. Todd, Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses ...

'' was entered into the

5th Moscow International Film Festival The 5th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 5 to 20 July 1967. The Grand Prix was shared between the Soviet film '' The Journalist'', directed by Sergei Gerasimov and the Hungarian film ''Father'', directed by István Szabó. The fe ...

Selected filmography

* '' Special Mission'' (1959) * '' Five Days, Five Nights'' (1960) * '' Reserved for the Death'' (1963) * '' Schwarzer Samt'' (1964) * ''

'' (1967) * '' Hart am Wind'' (1970)

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* 1920 births 2003 deaths Film people from Saxony-Anhalt Mass media people from Magdeburg {{Germany-film-director-stub