Gottfried Kolditz

Gottfried Kolditz 14 December 1922 15 June 1982 was a German movie actor and director Kolditz was born in GoldbachAltenbach to a farm family Between 1945 and 1949 he studied German philology at the University of Leipzig and took a course of direction and acting in 19471949 at the Leipzig Higher School of Music and Drama In the early 1950s he worked as an actor and director at various theaters in East Germany After 1955 he worked at DEFA the East German film studio in a wide range of genres fairy tales Ms Blizzard from the story of the same name by the Brothers Grimm adventure films musicals and science fiction Signals and B dust of stars on themes similar to 2001 A Space Odyssey He wrote scripts both for himself and for other directors He was widely acclaimed for his Red Westerns with actor Gojko Mitić Next Falcon Apache and Ulzana He died in 1982 in Dubrovnik Yugoslavia while preparing the shooting of a new film from his script Chief White Feather which was later completed by another director