Emil Justitz (3 May 1878 – 16 December 1932) was an Austrian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and producer of the

silent era A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, wh ...

.Grange p.98

Selected filmography

* '' Martyr of His Heart'' (1918) * '' Maria Pavlowna'' (1919) * '' The Red Poster'' (1920) * ''

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'' (1920) * ''

Demon Circus ''Demon Circus'' () is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Emil Justitz and starring Gertrude Welcker, Eduard von Winterstein, and Carl de Vogt.Grange p. 138 It is part of the Circus film genre. The film's sets were designed by the a ...

'' (1923) * ''

The Stolen Professor ''The Stolen Professor'' (German: ''Der gestohlene Professor'') is a 1924 German silent film directed by Emil Justitz and starring Olaf Fjord, Camilla von Hollay and Kläre Grieger.Gerhard Lamprecht. ''Deutsche Stummfilme, Volume 8'' p.439 Th ...

'' (1924) * ''

Poor as a Church Mouse ''Poor as a Church Mouse'' () is a 1931 German musical comedy film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Grete Mosheim, Anton Edthofer and Hans Thimig. It was based on the 1928 play ''A templom egere'' by Ladislas Fodor, which has been turned ...

'' (dir.

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, 1931)

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

* 1878 births 1932 deaths Austrian film directors Film people from Vienna {{Austria-film-director-stub