Peter Gorski, (7 September 1921 - 3 March 2007) was a German film
director. He was born in Berlin and later adopted by the German actor
Gustaf Gründgens. He started his career in 1955 as the assistant
director for the film Ripening Youth. In 1960 he directed the film
Faust, based on Goethe's Faust and adapted from the theater production
at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. The film starred his
adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles, and was chosen as
West Germany's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best
Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The
film also won Gorski a Deutscher Filmpreis for an Outstanding
Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.In 1968, Peter Gorski as the sole
heir sued the Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, which had published
the novel Mephisto which was loosely based on the life of his adoptive
father Gustaf Gründgens. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
ruled that Gründgens' personal freedom was more important than the
freedom of art.
director. He was born in Berlin and later adopted by the German actor
Gustaf Gründgens. He started his career in 1955 as the assistant
director for the film Ripening Youth. In 1960 he directed the film
Faust, based on Goethe's Faust and adapted from the theater production
at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. The film starred his
adoptive father Gustaf Gründgens as Mephistopheles, and was chosen as
West Germany's official submission to the 33rd Academy Awards for Best
Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The
film also won Gorski a Deutscher Filmpreis for an Outstanding
Documentary or Cultural Film in 1961.In 1968, Peter Gorski as the sole
heir sued the Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, which had published
the novel Mephisto which was loosely based on the life of his adoptive
father Gustaf Gründgens. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
ruled that Gründgens' personal freedom was more important than the
freedom of art.
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