Leo Mittler
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Leo Mittler | |
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| Born | 18 December 1893 Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 16 May 1958 (aged 64) West Berlin, West Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Playwright, screenwriter, film director |
| Years active | 1926 - 1958 |
Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian
silent era
.
Mittler's best known film as director was Soviet cinema.[1] Mittler also spent time at the American company Paramount's French subsidiary based at the Joinville Studios in Paris.
Following the
Second World War. Mittler's career as a director had all but ended in the mid-1930s, after making the Stanley Lupino musical comedy Cheer Up
(1936), but he worked occasionally as a screenwriter.
Mittler wrote the original story of the
communist
sympathies. Mittler returned to Germany post-war, dying there in 1958. Before his death, he worked in German theatre and television.
Selected filmography
Director
- We'll Meet Again in the Heimat(1926)
- Serenissimus and the Last Virgin (1928)
- Beyond the Street (1929)
- There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You (1930)
- The King of Paris (1930, German)
- The King of Paris (1930, French)
- Tropical Nights (1931)
- The Incorrigible(1931)
- The Concert (1931)
- Sunday of Life (1931)
- Every Woman Has Something (1931)
- Reckless Youth (1931)
- The Leap into the Void (1932)
- The Night at the Hotel (1932)
- Nights in Port Said (1932)
- The Faceless Voice (1933)
- Honeymoon for Three (1935)
- The Last Waltz (1936)
- Cheer Up (1936)
Screenwriter
- Sixteen Daughters and No Father (1928)
- The Mayor's Dilemma (1939)
- The Ghost Ship (1943)
- Song of Russia (1944)
References
- ^ Prawer p.89
Bibliography
- Mayhew, Robert. Ayn Rand And Song Of Russia: Communism And Anti-Communism in 1940s Hollywood. Scarecrow Press, 2005.
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- Leo Mittler at IMDb
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