Robert Wohlmuth (1902–1987) was an Austrian

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

. Following the

Anschluss The (, or , ), also known as the (, en, Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the Nazi Germany, German Reich on 13 March 1938. The idea of an (a united Austria and Germany that would form a "Ger ...

of 1938, Wohlmuth was forced to flee Austria. He went to America where he worked under the name Robert Wilmot.Parker & Poole p.124

Selected filmography

Director

* '' The Right to Live'' (1927) * ''

Love in May ''Love in May'' (German: ''Liebe im Mai'') is a 1928 Austrian silent film directed by Robert Wohlmuth and starring Wolf Albach-Retty, Betty Astor and Igo Sym.Dziergwa p.154 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Artur Berger and Em ...

'' (1928) * '' When the White Lilacs Bloom Again'' (1929) * ''

Ship of Girls ''Ship of Girls'' or ''Living Goods'' (German: ''Lebende Ware'' or '' Das Mädchenschiff'') is a 1929 Austrian-German silent drama film directed by Robert Wohlmuth and starring Margot Landa, Luigi Serventi and Attila Hörbiger.Gandert p.405 Its ...

'' (1929) * '' The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari'' (1930) (parodying '' The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari'') * '' Fräulein Lilli'' (1936)

Screenwriter

* ''

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'' (1945)

References

Bibliography

* Joshua Parker, Ralph J. Poole. ''Austria and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters 1865-1933''. LIT Verlag Munster, 2014.

External links

* 1902 births 1987 deaths Austrian male screenwriters Austrian film directors Austrian parodists Parody film directors Austrian emigrants to the United States Emigrants from Austria after the Anschluss Film people from Vienna 20th-century Austrian screenwriters 20th-century Austrian male writers {{Austria-bio-stub