birth_place birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
berlin , germany 7 november 1921 1955 & ndash ; 1961 peter gorski
 peter gorski film director
peter gorski

peter gorski , -lrb- born 7 november 1921 -rrb- is 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 `` reifende jugend '' .
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 gustav 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 gustav gründgens .
the federal constitutional court of germany ruled that gründgens ' personal freedom was more important than the freedom of art .
