Early Sound Motion Pictures in German [Directors]
by daisychaos-84785 | created - 21 Aug 2016 | updated - 21 Aug 2016 | Publicall of them leave Germany in 1933 because of the Nazi Government.
1. Fritz Lang
Actor | Le mépris
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. ...
2. Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Director | Komödianten
Georg Wilhelm Pabst is considered by many to be the greatest director of German cinema, in his era. He was especially appreciated by actors and actresses for the humane way in which he treated them. This was in contrast to some of his contemporaries, such as Arnold Fanck, who have been ...
3. Max Ophüls
Director | La ronde
Director Max Ophüls was born Max Oppenheimer in Saarbrücken, Germany. He began his career as a stage actor and director in the golden twenties. He worked in cities such as Stuttgart, Dortmund, Wuppertal, Vienna, Frankfurt, Breslau and Berlin. In 1929 his son Marcel Ophüls was born in Frankfurt, ...
4. Leontine Sagan
Director | Mädchen in Uniform
Leontine Sagan was born on February 13, 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was a director and actress, known for Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Men of Tomorrow (1932) and Showtime (1946). She was married to Dr. Victor Fleischer (dramatist). She died on May 20, 1974 in Pretoria, ...
5. Erik Charell
Director | Der Kongreß tanzt
Erik Charell was born on April 9, 1895 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]. He was a writer and director, known for Congress Dances (1931), Fireworks (1954) and Im Weissen Rössl (1952). He died on July 15, 1974 in Zurich, Switzerland.
6. Wilhelm Thiele
Director | The Madonna's Secret
Wilhelm Thiele was born on May 10, 1890 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for The Madonna's Secret (1946), Madame hat Ausgang (1931) and Das Totenmahl auf Schloß Begalitza (1923). He died on September 7, 1975 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
7. Josef von Sternberg
Director | The Devil Is a Woman
Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...
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