Anton Kolm
Anton Kolm (12 October 1865 in Vienna as Gustav Anton Kolm – 11 October 1922, also in Vienna) was an Austrian photographer who became one of the first film directors and film producers in the history of Austrian cinema.
A skilled photographer, he started to make
In 1919, with his wife and with financial support from the Depositenbank, he re-founded the Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie as
Anton Kolm however had disposed of his interest in the company in 1922, after disputes over financial matters. He died on 11 October 1922 and did not see the closure of Vita-Film. His wife Luise and his business partner Jacob Fleck moved to Berlin, where they married the following year.
Anton Kolm's son by Luise, Walter Kolm-Veltée, was also involved in the film industry, and among other things established a film academy at the University of Vienna.
Filmography
Kolm also shot a great quantity of early newsreel footage now of great historical value.
- Von Stufe zu Stufe (1908) (producer)[2]
- Die böse Schwiegermutter (1910) (director)
- Die Glückspuppe (1911) (director, together with Jacob Fleck, Luise Kolm and Claudius Veltée)
- Hoffmanns Erzählungen(1911) (director, together with Jacob Fleck, Luise Kolm and Claudius Veltée)
- Der Müller und sein Kind (1911/I) (producer)
- Der Müller und sein Kind (1911/II) (producer)
- Die Volkssänger (1911) (director)
- Karl Blasel als Zahnarzt (1912) (director)
- Trilby (1912) (director, together with Jacob Fleck, Luise Kolm and Claudius Veltée)
- The Wedding of Valeni (1914)
- With Heart and Hand for the Fatherland (1915) (producer)
- Summer Idyll (1916) (producer)
- On the Heights (1916) (producer)
- The Vagabonds (1916) (producer)
- With God for Emperor and Empire (1916) (producer)
- The Tragedy of Castle Rottersheim (1916) (producer)
- Lebenswogen (1917) (producer)
- The Black Hand (1917) (producer)
- In the Line of Duty (1917) (producer)
- The Stain of Shame (1917) (producer)
- Die Jüdin (1918) (producer)
- Double Suicide (1918) (producer)
- Rigoletto (1918) (producer)
- Die Zauberin am Stein (1919) (producer)
- The Ancestress (1919) (producer)
- Der Ledige Hof (1919) (producer)
- The Dancing Death (1920) (producer)
- Winterstürme (1920) (producer)
- Doctor Ruhland (1920) (producer)
- Eva, The Sin (1920) (producer)
- Let the Little Ones Come to Me (1920) (producer)
- The Master of Life (1920) (producer)
Notes
External links
- Anton Kolm at IMDb