Wien-Film
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Wien-Film GmbH was a large Austria
n film company, which in 1938 succeeded the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG
(Sascha Film Company) and lasted until 1985. Until 1945 the business was owned by the Cautio Trust Company (Cautio Treuhandgesellschaft), a subsidiary of the German
Reichsfilmkammer
, and was responsible for almost the entire production of films in the territory of the Ostmark
, as Austria was called at that time.
of Austria in 1938 put an end to the country's independent film production. The German-Austrian Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, which had already been sold, under pressure, to the Cautio Trust Company, was transformed on 16 December into Wien-Film.
The new company was officially presented with a new mission statement, signed by Joseph Goebbels
: "In competition with the other arts, the purpose of film is to give form to what satisfies human hearts and what makes them shudder, and by the revelation of the eternal, transports them into better worlds." The company's expected propaganda function was thus made unmistakably clear. Jews had been forbidden to work in the Austrian film industry since 1935, as the German Reichsfilmkammer had threatened to ban the import of Austrian films unless the industry kept to German terms.
In the drama films produced by the new company Austrian themes dominated, typified by the standard Viennese light romantic comedy, the Wiener Film
, lavish in music, costumes and sets, which mostly portrayed past times in rosy hues. From 1943/44, Wien-Film also made colour films, a privilege previously restricted to the UFA
company. Wien-Film also produced cultural films.
Besides the production of dramas and cultural films, Wien-Film concentrated on the management of cinema
s. Across Austria, the company owned 14 cinemas in Vienna
, Berndorf
, Linz
, Steyr
and Steyrermühl
. The Vienna cinemas were the "Scala", the "Apollo", the "Busch" and the "UFA-Ton", which were used for premieres. Wien-Film also ran the cinemas formerly owned by KIBA (Wiener Kinobetriebsanstalt) and UFA, under the newly established Ostmärkische Filmtheater Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. ("Ostmark Film Theatre Company Ltd").
The film production programme laid down by Berlin was to make films that were rooted in the soil of the Ostmark and provided distraction, in line with the government slogan Kraft durch Freude
("Strength Through Joy").
After the end of World War II
, Wien-Film was confiscated by the Allies
as "German property". After Vienna had been divided up into five zones of occupation it became apparent that the film studios in Sievering
and the main offices in Siebensterngasse came under the American administration, but that the film workshops at Rosenhügel were in the Soviet
sector. The Sievering film studios, it was believed, were to be liquidated by the Americans, in the interests of eliminating all possible competition to Hollywood productions.
At the end of 1945, the former head of Vienna film production, Karl Hartl
, was nominated the industry's business leader. While the Soviets, according to the provisions of the Potsdam Agreement
, took over all former "German" businesses as war reparations, the western occupying powers - Great Britain
, the United States
and France
- waived their rights in this regard. For the newly refounded Wien-Film, this meant that they could continue work at the studios in Sievering and Schönbrunn, but had to write off the studios and workshops at Rosenhügel. These were incorporated into USIA, the Soviet body responsible for administering Austrian assets as war reparations, and operated from then on as "Wien-Film am Rosenhügel".
On 21 August 1945, Wien-Film and the State Department for Reconstruction (Staatsamt für Wiederaufbau) signed a contract for a documentary about the restoration works in Vienna.
After the Austrian State Treaty
of 1955, the company passed into state ownership. Since the returns on production and the renting out of the studios were becoming less and less profitable, Wien-Film was wound up as a state company in 1985, leaving only a small holding company to maintain rights over earlier productions.
, who also remained chief of production right to the end. The making of cultural films was under the direction of Dr. Josef Lebzelter of the former Selenophon-Film company. Overall control of film productions – from the initial idea to the screening - was the responsibility of the Reichsfilmdramaturg and later the Reichsfilmintendant.
The first board meeting took place on 16 December 1938, at which the advisers were also appointed. These were:
The stars of Wien-Film until 1945 were Wolf Albach-Retty
, Elfriede Datzig, Marte Harell, Hans Holt
, Olly Holzmann, Attila Hörbiger
, Paul Hörbiger
, Winnie Markus, Hans Moser
, Rudolf Prack
, Jane Tilden and Paula Wessely
.
The directors most used by Wien-Film were Gustav Ucicky
, experienced in getting across National Socialist propaganda content, and E. W. Emo
, who between them produced a third of Wien-Film's 60 or so drama films. Not far behind them in productivity were Willi Forst
, who was responsible for the best productions of this period, Géza von Bolváry
and Hans Thimig
, followed by the brothers Ernst
and Hubert Marischka
, as well as Géza von Cziffra
, who with Der weiße Traum ("The White Dream") achieved the most commercially successful of Wien-Film's productions.
The most frequently used cameramen were Günther Anders
, Georg Bruckbauer, Hans Schneeberger and Jaroslaw Tuzar. Wien-Film's principal composers were Anton Profes and Willy Schmidt-Gentner
. Erich von Neusser and Fritz Podehl were producers.
studios in Sievering
and the former Vita-Film
workshops at Rosenhügel - were acquired. In addition to these, there was also the small workshop formerly belonging to Wiener Kunstfilm
in the Bauernmarkt in the Innere Stadt
and another small studio in Schönbrunn
.
In the three years between 1939 and 1941 next to the Rosenhügel Studios a synchronisation
complex was built, with a large and a small synchronisation hall, cutting rooms and offices.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n film company, which in 1938 succeeded the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG
Sascha-Film
Sascha-Film, in full Sascha-Filmindustrie AG and from 1933 Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, was the largest Austrian film production company of the silent film and early sound film period.-History:...
(Sascha Film Company) and lasted until 1985. Until 1945 the business was owned by the Cautio Trust Company (Cautio Treuhandgesellschaft), a subsidiary of the German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Reichsfilmkammer
Reichsfilmkammer
The Reichsfilmkammer was a public corporation based in Berlin that regulated the film industry in National Socialist Germany between 1933 and 1945...
, and was responsible for almost the entire production of films in the territory of the Ostmark
Ostmark (Austria)
Ostmark was the name used by Nazi propaganda to replace that of the formerly independent Austria after the Anschluss annexation of that country by Nazi Germany in 1938....
, as Austria was called at that time.
History
The German AnschlussAnschluss
The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....
of Austria in 1938 put an end to the country's independent film production. The German-Austrian Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, which had already been sold, under pressure, to the Cautio Trust Company, was transformed on 16 December into Wien-Film.
The new company was officially presented with a new mission statement, signed by Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
: "In competition with the other arts, the purpose of film is to give form to what satisfies human hearts and what makes them shudder, and by the revelation of the eternal, transports them into better worlds." The company's expected propaganda function was thus made unmistakably clear. Jews had been forbidden to work in the Austrian film industry since 1935, as the German Reichsfilmkammer had threatened to ban the import of Austrian films unless the industry kept to German terms.
In the drama films produced by the new company Austrian themes dominated, typified by the standard Viennese light romantic comedy, the Wiener Film
Wiener Film
Wiener Film is an Austrian film genre, consisting of a combination of comedy, romance and melodrama in an historical setting, mostly, and typically, the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
, lavish in music, costumes and sets, which mostly portrayed past times in rosy hues. From 1943/44, Wien-Film also made colour films, a privilege previously restricted to the UFA
Universum Film AG
Universum Film AG, better known as UFA or Ufa, is a film company that was the principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema from 1917 to 1945...
company. Wien-Film also produced cultural films.
Besides the production of dramas and cultural films, Wien-Film concentrated on the management of cinema
Movie theater
A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
s. Across Austria, the company owned 14 cinemas in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
, Berndorf
Berndorf
Berndorf can refer to any of the following places:* Berndorf, Rhineland-Palatinate, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany* Berndorf, part of Twistetal, Hesse, Germany* Berndorf, Lower Austria, Austria...
, Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...
, Steyr
Steyr
Steyr is a town, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. The town is situated at the confluence of the rivers Steyr and Enns. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and simultaneously the 3rd largest town in Upper Austria....
and Steyrermühl
Steyrermühl
Steyrermühl is a settlement in Upper Austria, Austria in the area of Laakirchen....
. The Vienna cinemas were the "Scala", the "Apollo", the "Busch" and the "UFA-Ton", which were used for premieres. Wien-Film also ran the cinemas formerly owned by KIBA (Wiener Kinobetriebsanstalt) and UFA, under the newly established Ostmärkische Filmtheater Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H. ("Ostmark Film Theatre Company Ltd").
The film production programme laid down by Berlin was to make films that were rooted in the soil of the Ostmark and provided distraction, in line with the government slogan Kraft durch Freude
Kraft durch Freude
Kraft durch Freude was a large state-controlled leisure organization in Nazi Germany. It was a part of the German Labour Front , the national German labour organization at that time...
("Strength Through Joy").
After the end of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Wien-Film was confiscated by the Allies
Allies
In everyday English usage, allies are people, groups, or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out between them...
as "German property". After Vienna had been divided up into five zones of occupation it became apparent that the film studios in Sievering
Sievering
Sievering is a suburb of Vienna and part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna. Sievering was created in 1892 out of the two erstwhile independent suburbs Untersievering and Obersievering. These still exist as Katastralgemeinden.- Geography :...
and the main offices in Siebensterngasse came under the American administration, but that the film workshops at Rosenhügel were in the Soviet
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , commonly referred to as Soviet Russia, Bolshevik Russia, or simply Russia, was the largest, most populous and economically developed republic in the former Soviet Union....
sector. The Sievering film studios, it was believed, were to be liquidated by the Americans, in the interests of eliminating all possible competition to Hollywood productions.
At the end of 1945, the former head of Vienna film production, Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...
, was nominated the industry's business leader. While the Soviets, according to the provisions of the Potsdam Agreement
Potsdam Agreement
The Potsdam Agreement was the Allied plan of tripartite military occupation and reconstruction of Germany—referring to the German Reich with its pre-war 1937 borders including the former eastern territories—and the entire European Theatre of War territory...
, took over all former "German" businesses as war reparations, the western occupying powers - Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
, the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
- waived their rights in this regard. For the newly refounded Wien-Film, this meant that they could continue work at the studios in Sievering and Schönbrunn, but had to write off the studios and workshops at Rosenhügel. These were incorporated into USIA, the Soviet body responsible for administering Austrian assets as war reparations, and operated from then on as "Wien-Film am Rosenhügel".
On 21 August 1945, Wien-Film and the State Department for Reconstruction (Staatsamt für Wiederaufbau) signed a contract for a documentary about the restoration works in Vienna.
After the Austrian State Treaty
Austrian State Treaty
The Austrian State Treaty or Austrian Independence Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state. It was signed on May 15, 1955, in Vienna at the Schloss Belvedere among the Allied occupying powers and the Austrian government...
of 1955, the company passed into state ownership. Since the returns on production and the renting out of the studios were becoming less and less profitable, Wien-Film was wound up as a state company in 1985, leaving only a small holding company to maintain rights over earlier productions.
Personnel
The first directors of Wien-Film were general director Fritz Hirt, Paul Hach and the Viennese film director Karl HartlKarl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...
, who also remained chief of production right to the end. The making of cultural films was under the direction of Dr. Josef Lebzelter of the former Selenophon-Film company. Overall control of film productions – from the initial idea to the screening - was the responsibility of the Reichsfilmdramaturg and later the Reichsfilmintendant.
The first board meeting took place on 16 December 1938, at which the advisers were also appointed. These were:
- Friedrich Merten, Chief Executive of Film-Finanz, Berlin
- Dr. Josef Joham, board member of the CreditanstaltCreditanstaltThe Creditanstalt was an Austrian bank. The Creditanstalt was based in Vienna, founded in 1855 as K. k. priv. Österreichische Credit-Anstalt für Handel und Gewerbe by the Rothschild family...
, Vienna - Willi ForstWilli ForstWilli Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...
, film director, Vienna - Carl FroelichCarl FroelichCarl August Froelich was a German film pioneer and film director.-Apparatus builder and cameraman:...
, film director and president of the Reichsfilmkammer, Berlin - Dr. Karl Ott, Ministerialdirektor, Berlin
- Hermann Burmeister, Ministerialrat, Berlin
- Heinrich Post, bank director, Berlin
The stars of Wien-Film until 1945 were Wolf Albach-Retty
Wolf Albach-Retty
Wolf Albach-Retty was a Vienna-born Austrian actor. He had a daughter with German actress Magda Schneider named Romy Schneider....
, Elfriede Datzig, Marte Harell, Hans Holt
Hans Holt
Hans Holt was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1935 and 1990.-Selected filmography:* Florentine * Dir zuliebe * 1. April 2000 * Almost Angels...
, Olly Holzmann, Attila Hörbiger
Attila Hörbiger
Attila Hörbiger was an Austrian stage and movie actor.Hörbiger was born in Budapest, then Austria–Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger and younger brother of actor Paul Hörbiger...
, Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger was an Austrian theatre and film actor.-Life and work:Paul Hörbiger was born in Budapest, the son of Hans Hörbiger, an engineer who wrote Welteislehre on glacial cosmology, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902 the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the...
, Winnie Markus, Hans Moser
Hans Moser (actor)
Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film...
, Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack
-Selected filmography:* The Thief of Bagdad * Die Privatsekretärin * Ball at the Savoy * Mariandl * Mariandl's Homecoming * Holiday in St. Tropez * The Standard -External links:...
, Jane Tilden and Paula Wessely
Paula Wessely
Paula Anna Maria Wessely was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely , as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress....
.
The directors most used by Wien-Film were Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...
, experienced in getting across National Socialist propaganda content, and E. W. Emo
E. W. Emo
E. W. Emo was an Austrian film director, specialising in comedies, 21 of them with the actor Hans Moser. He also worked outside Austria and wrote some screenplays....
, who between them produced a third of Wien-Film's 60 or so drama films. Not far behind them in productivity were Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...
, who was responsible for the best productions of this period, Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...
and Hans Thimig
Hans Thimig
Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner was an Austrian actor, film director and stage director.- Life :...
, followed by the brothers Ernst
Ernst Marischka
Ernst Marischka was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 93 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962...
and Hubert Marischka
Hubert Marischka
Hubert Marischka , brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter.- Career :...
, as well as Géza von Cziffra
Géza von Cziffra
Géza von Cziffra was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.- Life :Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania....
, who with Der weiße Traum ("The White Dream") achieved the most commercially successful of Wien-Film's productions.
The most frequently used cameramen were Günther Anders
Günther Anders (cameraman)
Günther Anders was a German cameraman and cinematographer.-Life:Anders was the son of a director of the film production company Eiko, later sales director for UFA...
, Georg Bruckbauer, Hans Schneeberger and Jaroslaw Tuzar. Wien-Film's principal composers were Anton Profes and Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Willy Schmidt-Gentner was one of the most successful German composers of film music in the history of German-language cinema. He moved to Vienna in 1933...
. Erich von Neusser and Fritz Podehl were producers.
Studios
For premises the only two large studio complexes in Austria - the former Sascha-FilmSascha-Film
Sascha-Film, in full Sascha-Filmindustrie AG and from 1933 Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, was the largest Austrian film production company of the silent film and early sound film period.-History:...
studios in Sievering
Sievering
Sievering is a suburb of Vienna and part of Döbling, the 19th district of Vienna. Sievering was created in 1892 out of the two erstwhile independent suburbs Untersievering and Obersievering. These still exist as Katastralgemeinden.- Geography :...
and the former Vita-Film
Vita-Film
Vita-Film was founded in 1919 as the successor company to Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie by Anton and Luise Kolm.By 1923 Vita-Film had built the Rosenhügel Film Studios in the Vienna suburbs, which still stand and are still used for film production...
workshops at Rosenhügel - were acquired. In addition to these, there was also the small workshop formerly belonging to Wiener Kunstfilm
Wiener Kunstfilm
Wiener Kunstfilm, in full Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie , was the first major Austrian film production company...
in the Bauernmarkt in the Innere Stadt
Innere Stadt
The Innere Stadt is the 1st municipal District of Vienna . The Innere Stadt is the old town of Vienna. Until the city boundaries were expanded in 1850, the Innere Stadt was congruent with the city of Vienna...
and another small studio in Schönbrunn
Schönbrunn
Schönbrunn may refer to:*Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria*Schönbrunn , a municipality in Rhein-Neckar , Baden-Württemberg, Germany*Schönbrunn , a village in the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany...
.
In the three years between 1939 and 1941 next to the Rosenhügel Studios a synchronisation
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...
complex was built, with a large and a small synchronisation hall, cutting rooms and offices.
Film productions
Between 1939 and 1945, fifty films were made. There were also a number of delegated productions, which were carried out under the names of Forst-Film, Emo-Film, and Styria-Film.- Unsterblicher Walzer (1939, E. W. EmoE. W. EmoE. W. Emo was an Austrian film director, specialising in comedies, 21 of them with the actor Hans Moser. He also worked outside Austria and wrote some screenplays....
) - Mutterliebe (1939, Gustav UcickyGustav UcickyGustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...
) - Frau im Strom (1939, Gerhard LamprechtGerhard LamprechtGerhard Lamprecht was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958...
) - Donauschiffer (1939/40, Robert A. StemmleRobert A. StemmleRobert Adolf Stemmle was a German screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 86 films between 1932 and 1967...
) - Der Postmeister (1939/40, Gustav Ucicky)
- Das jüngste Gericht (1939, Franz Seitz senior)
- So gefällst Du mir (1940/41, Hans ThimigHans ThimigHans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner was an Austrian actor, film director and stage director.- Life :...
, Rudolf Schaad) - Operette (1940, Willi ForstWilli ForstWilli Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...
) - Meine Tochter lebt in Wien (1940, E. W. Emo)
- Liebe ist zollfrei (1940/41, E. W. Emo)
- Krambambuli. Die Geschichte eines Hundes (1940, Karl Köstlin)
- Ein Leben lang (1940, Gustav Ucicky)
- Der liebe Augustin (1940, E. W. Emo)
- Wir bitten zum Tanz (1941, Hubert MarischkaHubert MarischkaHubert Marischka , brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter.- Career :...
) - Wien 1910 (1941/42, E. W. Emo)
- Schicksal (1941/42, Géza von BolváryGéza von BolváryGéza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...
) - HeimkehrHeimkehrHeimkehr is a 1941 German anti-Polish propaganda film directed by Gustav Ucicky.It received the rare honor "Film of the Nation," bestowed on films considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the national cause...
(1941, Gustav Ucicky) - Dreimal Hochzeit (1941, Geza von Bolvary)
- Brüderlein fein (1941/42, Hans Thimig)
- Zwei glückliche Menschen (1942, E. W. Emo)
- Wen die Götter lieben. Mozart (1942, Karl HartlKarl HartlKarl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...
) - Späte Liebe (1942/43, Gustav Ucicky)
- Sommerliebe (1942, Erich EngelErich EngelErich Engel was a German film and theatre director.- Biography :Engel was born in Hamburg, where later he studied at the School of Applied Arts...
) - Die heimliche Gräfin (1942, Geza von Bolvary)
- Das Ferienkind (1942/43, Karl Hans Leiter)
- Agram, die Hauptstadt KroatienAgram, die Hauptstadt KroatienAgram, die Hauptstadt Kroatien is a short film directed by Oktavijan Miletić in 1943 in the Independent State of Croatia. It was produced for Tobis Film in Germany and showed cultural activities in Zagreb, as well as the main monuments of the city....
(1943, Oktavijan MiletićOktavijan MileticOktavijan Miletić was a Croatian cinematographer and director. His avant-garde work in the period from 1928 to 1945 remains as one of the foundations of Croatian film....
) - Schwarz auf Weiß (1943, E. W. Emo)
- Schrammeln (1943/44, Geza von Bolvary)
- Romantische Brautfahrt (1943, Leopold Hainisch)
- Reisebekanntschaft (1943, E. W. Emo)
- Glück bei Frauen (1943/44, Peter Paul BrauerPeter Paul BrauerPeter Paul Brauer was a German film producer and film director.In 1928, he became involved in film production in the Netherlands. That same year he returned to Germany and, over several years, produced several short films. After the takeover of the Nazis in March 1933, Brauer was production...
) - Freunde (1943/44, E. W. Emo)
- Die kluge Marianne (1943, Hans Thimig)
- Der weiße Traum (1943, Géza von CziffraGéza von CziffraGéza von Cziffra was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.- Life :Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania....
) - Am Ende der Welt (1943/44, Gustav Ucicky)
- Wiener Mädeln (1944/45, Willi Forst)
- Wie ein Dieb in der Nacht (1944/45, Hans Thimig)
- Umwege zu Dir (1944/45, Hans Thimig)
- Ulli und Marei (1944/45, Leopold Hainisch)
- Liebe nach Noten (1944/45, Géza von Cziffra)
- Ein Mann gehört ins Haus (1944/45, Hubert Marischka)
- Die goldene Fessel (1944, Hans Thimig)
- Der gebieterische Ruf (1944, Gustav Ucicky)
- Das Herz muß schweigen (1944, Gustav Ucicky)
- 1 April 2000 (1952, Wolfgang LiebeneinerWolfgang LiebeneinerWolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...
)