Franz Antel
Franz Antel | |
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Born | |
Died | 11 August 2007 Vienna, Austria | (aged 94)
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1948-2003 |
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) [1] was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Born in
From the late 1960s, encouraged by the new opportunities in the film industry brought about by the
Antel would recount an
Among the best known actors Antel had worked with from the 1940s to the 1970s were
1981 was a turning point in Antel's career when he adapted for the big screen a
The film's strong anti-fascist message, the moving dialogue, and performances by the crème de la crème of Austrian actors and actresses (Ida Krottendorf, Alfred Böhm, Heinz Marecek, Hans Holt, Dolores Schmidinger and many more) made Der Bockerer an unusually successful film and gave new impetus to Antel's career. He made three sequels, which follow the lives of the Bockerers well into the 1960s, each depicting a crucial historical event in Austria or one of its neighbouring countries:
- Der Bockerer II (1996) is about the ten-year occupation (1945-1955) of Austria by the allied powers;
- Der Bockerer III — Die Brücke von Andau (1956 Hungarian Revolution; and, finally,
- Der Bockerer IV — Der Prager Frühling (2003) deals with the historical event of Alexander Dubček's Prague Spring in 1968.
Selected filmography
- My Daughter Lives in Vienna (1940)
- The Singing House (1948)
- No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (1950)
- The Mine Foreman (1952)
- Ideal Woman Sought (1952)
- Hello Porter (1952)
- The Emperor Waltz (1953)
- Ein tolles Früchtchen (1953)
- The Sweetest Fruits (1954)
- The Red Prince (1954)
- Roses from the South (1954)
- The Congress Dances (1955)
- Marriage Sanitarium (1955)
- Espionage (1955)
- Emperor's Ball (1956)
- Love, Girls and Soldiers (1958)
- Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee (1959)
- The Bandit and the Princess (1962)
- Frühstück mit dem Tod (1964)
- Die große Kür (1964)
- Call of the Forest (1965)
- Das große Glück (1967)
- The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (1967)
- Tower of Screaming Virgins (1968)
- Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968)
- Why Did I Ever Say Yes Twice? (1969)
- Naughty Roommates (1969)
- House of Pleasure (1969)
- My Father, the Ape and I (1971)
- Einer spinnt immer (1971)
- Sie nannten ihn Krambambuli (1972)
- Die lustigen Vier von der Tankstelle (1972)
- Blue Blooms the Gentian (1973)
- Prima ti suono e poi ti sparo (1975)
- As of Tomorrow (1976)
- Casanova & Co. (1977)
- Love Hotel in Tyrol (1978)
- Der Bockerer (1981)
- Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown (1987)
- Der Bockerer II – Österreich ist frei (1996)
- Der Bockerer III – Die Brücke von Andau (2000)
- Der Bockerer IV – Prager Frühling (2003)
Further reading
- Franz Antel, Christian F. Winkler: Hollywood an der Donau. Geschichte der Wien-Film in Sievering. Vienna, 1991 (ISBN 3-7046-0230-2)
Autobiographies
- Franz Antel (with Peter Orthofer): Verdreht, verliebt, mein Leben, Vienna, Munich 2001 (ISBN 3-85002-464-4)
- Franz Antel (with Ingrid Pachmann and Peter Orthofer): „Servus Franz, grüß dich!“ Anekdoten aus 75 Jahren Filmschaffen von Franz Antel. Der Antel in Bildern und Anekdoten, Vienna 2006 (ISBN 3-85485-170-7)
- Franz Antel (with Bernd Buttinger): Franz Antel. Ein Leben für den Film, Mariahof 2006 (ISBN 978-3-9501887-9-0)
References
- ^ AFP: Austrian film director Franz Antel dies aged 94
- ^ "Antel über "Servus, Franz, grüß dich!" - Wien-Magazin". wiev1.orf.at. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
- ^ "12th Moscow International Film Festival (1981)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved 2013-01-25.
External links
- Franz Antel at IMDb