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Austrian Films Of The 1930s
A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 1930s ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see :Austrian films. 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 References External links Austrian filmat the Internet Movie Database *http://www.austrianfilm.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Austrian Films Of The 1930s 1930s Austrian Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Something associated with the country Austria, for example: ... Films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor. He directed more than 35 feature films in a five-decade career after leaving the theatre. He first gained attention for film noir mysteries such as '' Laura'' (1944) and '' Fallen Angel'' (1945), while in the 1950s and 1960s, he directed high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these later films pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with themes which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction ('' The Man with the Golden Arm'', 1955), rape ('' Anatomy of a Murder'', 1959) and homosexuality ('' Advise & Consent'', 1962). He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had several acting roles. Early life Preminger was born in 1905 in Wischnitz, Bukovina, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Vyzhnytsia, Ukraine), into a Jewish family. His parents were Josefa (née F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Uncle From Sumatra
''The Uncle from Sumatra'' (German: ''Der Onkel aus Sumatra'') is a 1930 Austrian silent comedy film directed by Gyula Szöreghy and starring Wolf Albach-Retty, Mary Kid and Rina Marsa.Weniger p.593 Cast * Gyula Szöreghy * Wolf Albach-Retty * Hans Unterkircher * Eugen Guenther * Rina Marsa * Mary Kid * Mizzi Griebl Mizzi Griebl (27 February 1872 – 8 June 1952) was an Austrian stage actor, stage and film actress.Rogowski p.326 She appeared in a number of supporting roles during the silent era, silent and early sound era. Selected filmography * ''Oh, Dear A ... References Bibliography * Weniger, Kay. Es wird im Leben dir mehr genommen als gegeben ...' Lexikon der aus Deutschland und Österreich emigrierten Filmschaffenden 1933 bis 1945''. ACABUS Verlag, 2011. External links * 1930 films Austrian silent feature films Films directed by Gyula Szöreghy Austrian black-and-white films Austrian comedy films 1930 comedy films Silent comedy films 1930s German-language f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Müller
Renate Müller (26 April 1906 – 7 October 1937) was a German singer and actress in both silent films and sound films, as well as on stage. One of the most successful actresses in German films from the early 1930s, she was courted by the Nazi Party to appear in films that promoted their ideals, but refused. Her sudden death at the age of 31 was initially attributed to epilepsy, but after the end of World War II, some commentators asserted that she was in fact murdered by Gestapo officers, others that she committed suicide. The true circumstances of her death remain unknown. Life and career Born in Munich, Germany, Müller entered films in 1929 in Berlin, and quickly became popular. A blue-eyed blonde, she was considered to be one of the great beauties of her day, and, along with Marlene Dietrich, was seen to embody fashionable Berlin society. She starred in more than twenty German films, including ''Viktor und Viktoria'' (1933), one of her biggest successes, which was rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storm In A Water Glass (1931 Film)
''Storm in a Water Glass'' (German: ''Sturm im Wasserglas'') is a 1931 Austrian-German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Hansi Niese, Renate Müller and Paul Otto. The film is based on the by Bruno Frank, later adapted into the British film ''Storm in a Teacup''. The film is known by the alternative title ''The Flower Woman of Lindenau'' (''Die Blumenfrau von Lindenau''). It is notable, in part, for the small role played by Hedy Lamarr in her second film. The film's art direction was by Hans Jacoby. It premiered in Vienna on 13 March 1931, coinciding with the opening of the Sascha-Filmpalast cinema.Barton, Ruth. ''Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film''. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. p. 17. The film was remade in 1960. Plot An ambitious town councillor feels confident he will be elected the next mayor, but a dispute over a mongrel dog owned by a local flower seller rapidly turns into a scandal which threatens his political career. Cast * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Frank
Harry Frank (15 October 1896 – 12 December 1947) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' In den Goldfeldern von Nevada'' (1920) * ''Das wandernde Bild'' (1920) * ''The Wandering Image'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * ''Marizza'' (1922) * '' The Girl Without a Homeland'' (1927) * '' Escape from Hell'' (1928) * ''The Case of Prosecutor M'' (1928) * ''Give Me Life'' (1928) * '' Mikosch Comes In'' (1928) * ''Pawns of Passion'' (1928) * '' Almenrausch and Edelweiss'' (1928) * ''High Treason'' (1929) * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) * '' The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' The Rhineland Girl'' (1930) * '' Madame Bluebeard'' (1931) * '' Kampf um Blond'' (1932) * ''Wehe, wenn er losgelassen'' (1932) * '' Life Begins Tomorrow'' (1933) * ''The Hymn of Leuthen'' (1933) * ''The Girlfriend of a Big Man'' (1934) * ''What Am I Without You'' (1934) * '' Everything for a Woman'' (1935) * ''Black Fighter Johanna'' (1934 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover (; born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert; 30 September 1887 – 23 January 1980) was a German actress whose film career spanned between 1913 and 1979. She was one of the most popular and recognized film actresses in the Weimar Republic. Early life Lil Dagover was born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert in Madiun, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to German parents. Some sources inaccurately give her birth name as Marta Maria Lillits. Her father, Adolf Karl Ludwig Moritz Seubert, born in Karlsruhe/Baden Germany, was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. She had two siblings. Her mother died in 1897, after which she returned to Germany, where she lived with relatives in Tübingen. She was educated at boarding schools in Baden-Baden, Weimar, and Geneva, Switzerland. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives. After completing her education she began pursuing a career as a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Wiene
Conrad Wiene (3 February 1878 – after May 1934) was an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent films. He was the younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene. Biography Conrad Wiene was born in Vienna, younger son of the successful actor Carl Wiene, in whose footsteps Conrad initially followed as a stage and screen actor. He co-directed his first films with his elder brother Robert, and later made almost twenty feature films, mostly silent. On most of them he also wrote the screenplays. He worked in Berlin, Prague and Breslau (Wrocław) and above all in Vienna, where several of his silent films were shot in the Schönbrunn Studios (''Schönbrunn-Ateliers''). His name was connected with the first proposal in 1930 in Vienna to film Lion Feuchtwanger's 1925 historical novel ''Jud Süß'' ("Jew Süss"), but the project never reached the production stage. With the arrival and dominance of sound film, Wiene worked in Germany. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madame Bluebeard
''Madame Bluebeard'' (German: ''Madame Blaubart'') is a 1931 Austrian drama film directed by Conrad Wiene and starring Lil Dagover, Harry Frank and Otto Hartmann.Waldman p.31 The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Ledersteger. Cast * Lil Dagover as Frau Erika Dankwarth * Harry Frank as Helmuth Krüger * Otto Hartmann as Baron Terhusen * Vera Schmiterlöw as Karla, seine Schwester * Anton Edthofer as Schiereisen * Vera Salvotti as Die schwarze Käthe * Alfred Neugebauer as Sykora * Albert Kersten Albert von Kersten (1889–1937) was an Austrian stage and film actor.Giesen p.191 Selected filmography * '' Serge Panine'' (1922) * '' Fatme's Rescue'' (1922) * '' Gypsy Love'' (1922) * '' William Ratcliff'' (1922) * ''The Hell of Barballo'' (1 ... as Lorenz * Lotte Deyers as Irre References Bibliography * Waldman, Harry. ''Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942''. McFarland, 2008. External links * 1931 films 1931 drama films Austrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Farkas
Karl Farkas (28 October 1893 – 16 May 1971) was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer. Biography In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage. After attending the Academy of Music and Acting Arts in Vienna, he debuted in Olmütz as Tsarevich, in a play by Gabryela Zapolska. After various stage appearances in Austria and Moravia, he returned to Vienna in 1921, where he was engaged by Egon Dorn, the director of the Kabarett ''Simpl''. There he worked as a 'Blitzdichter' (nickname: the Tick), and performed together with Fritz Grünbaum in a ''Doppelconférence'', a cabaret number created in Budapest and consisting of a dialogue between two actors, one of whom plays a clever and educated interlocutor while the other has the role of a blunderer. He married Anny Hán in 1924. Under the Nazi regime in 1938, he was forced to become a refugee because of his Jewish descent, going first to Brno, then Paris and endi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weissman Tonfilm
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