Peter Lilienthal (27 November 1927 – 28 April 2023) was a German film director, writer, actor and producer.
[1] In the 1960s and 1970s, Lilienthal was among directors who focused on social criticism, along with Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
[4] In 1975, Lilienthal shot Calm Prevails Over the Country (Es herrscht Ruhe im Land),[2] based on a screenplay by Antonio Skármeta.
[6] The Uprising [de] (Der Aufstand or La insurrección) followed, another collaboration with Skármeta in 1980,[1] a film which was made in Costa Rica and depicts the Nicaraguan Revolution.
[2][8] Lilienthal was the first director of the department Film- und Medienkunst (The art of film and media) of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1985, holding the position until 1996.