Robert Stratil (1919 – 1976) was a German

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Sudeten German German Bohemians ( ; ), later known as Sudeten Germans ( ; ), were ethnic Germans living in the Czech lands of the Bohemian Crown, which later became an integral part of Czechoslovakia. Before 1945, over three million German Bohemians constitu ...

heritage, he fled

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following

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and settled in

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where he worked at the

Bavaria Studios Bavaria Studios are film production studios located in Munich, the capital of the region of Bavaria in Germany, and a subsidiary of Bavaria Film. History The studios were constructed in the suburb of Geiselgasteig in 1919 shortly after the Firs ...

Selected filmography

* '' Sky Without Stars'' (1955) * '' Once a Greek'' (1956) * '' Rose Bernd'' (1957) * '' The Doctor of Stalingrad'' (1957) * '' The Crammer'' (1958) * '' Dorothea Angermann'' (1959) * '' You Don't Shoot at Angels'' (1960) * '' The Black Sheep'' (1960) * '' A Woman for Life'' (1960) * ''

One, Two, Three ''One, Two, Three'' is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder, and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play ''Egy, kettő, három'' by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowe ...

'' (1961) * '' A Mission for Mr. Dodd'' (1964) * '' Love Nights in the Taiga'' (1967)

References

Bibliography

* Greco, Joseph. ''The File on Robert Siodmak in Hollywood, 1941-1951''. Universal-Publishers, 1999.

External links

* 1919 births 1976 deaths German art directors Film people from Ostrava Sudeten German people {{Germany-film-bio-stub