Peter Francke

{{Short description|German screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Peter Francke | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 4 February 1897 | birth_place = Berlin, German Empire | death_date = January 1978 (aged 80) | death_place = Munich, West Germany | other_names = | occupation = Writer | years_active = 1933-1966 (film) }} '''Peter Francke''' (1897-1978) was a German screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for ''The Girl from Barnhelm'' (1940), an adaptation of a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.<ref>Klossner p.150</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Happy Days in Aranjuez'' (1933) * ''The Voice of Love'' (1934) * ''Holiday From Myself'' (1934) * ''The Saint and Her Fool'' (1935) * ''Miracle of Flight'' (1935) * ''Hero for a Night'' (1935) * ''The Monastery's Hunter'' (1935) * ''City of Anatol'' (1936) * ''The Haunted Castle'' (1936) * ''Wells in Flames'' (1937) * ''Comrades at Sea'' (1938) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * ''The Governor'' (1939) * ''A Woman Like You'' (1939) * ''The Girl from Barnhelm'' (1940) * ''Comrades'' (1941) * ''What Does Brigitte Want?'' (1941) * ''Beloved World'' (1942) * ''I Need You'' (1944) * ''A Man Like Maximilian'' (1945) * ''Maresi'' (1948) * ''The Disturbed Wedding Night'' (1950) * ''Regimental Music'' (1950) * ''Toxi'' (1952) * ''Carnival in White'' (1952) * ''Holiday From Myself'' (1952) * ''Stars Over Colombo'' (1953) * ''The Country Schoolmaster'' (1954) * ''Spring Song'' (1954) * ''In Hamburg When the Nights Are Long'' (1956)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Fischer, Barbara & Fox, Thomas C. ''A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing''. Camden House, 2005. * Klossner, Michael. ''The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television''. McFarland & Co, 2002.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0290467}}

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