FrameThrower · Actors · Klaus Löwitsch
Klaus Löwitsch
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1971–1979
Born 8 April 1936 · Berlin, Germany · died 3 December 2002
Klaus Löwitsch was a German actor, best known in Germany for his starring role in the television detective series Peter Strohm. He appeared in several films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, beginning with Pioneers in Ingolstadt (1971) and notably including World on a Wire (1973) and The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979). His English language films include Cross of Iron (1977), The Odessa File (1974), Firefox (1982) and Fassbinder's Despair (1978). He was born in Berlin. He died in Munich from pancreatic cancer.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1971–1979
- Bavarian TV Awards1998
- German Film Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Klaus takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 47% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Klaus takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 195 frames from Klaus Löwitsch's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.