Hans-Joachim Kasprzik

Hans-Joachim Kasprzik (14 August 1928 – 10 October 1997) was a German film and television director and screenwriter. He worked with DEFA and Deutscher Fernsehfunk in East Germany.

Career Hans-Joachim Kasprzik was born in Beuthen. After the war, he attended a training programrun by the newly created DEFA in the Soviet occupation zone. He then began his career there in the 1950s, first working as an assistant for several important directors, such as Kurt Maetzig, Konrad Wolf, Hans Müller and Kurt Jung-Alsen.

In 1966, Kasprzik directed the comedy Hände hoch oder ich schieße ("Hands up, or I shoot") with Rolf Herricht, a film that was banned by the Communists and not released. The film was restored by the DEFA Foundation (German: DEFA Stiftung) and the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv in 2009 and was the last in a series of banned films restored and released by the Foundation. from Fallada's book, Every Man Dies Alone, and was broadcast in three parts in September 1970. He also directed Die Brüder Lautensack in 1973, Abschied vom Frieden in 1979 and Bahnwärter Thiel in 1982. He was best known as director of the miniseries Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria in 1983 and 1984, in which his daughter appeared.

Personal Kasprzik was married to a photographer, Jutta Kasprzik, and his daughter is the actress Anne Kasprik.

Filmography (selected) Gewissen in Aufruhr (1961) Wolf unter Wölfen (1965) Hände hoch oder ich schieße (1966), restored in 2009 Kleiner Mann – was nun? (1967) Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1970) Die Brüder Lautensack (1972) Abschied vom Frieden (1977) Bahnwärter Thiel (1982) Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria (1983–1984) Gräfin Cosel (1987) Polizeiruf 110, "Der Wahrheit verpflichtet" (1989)