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Years active
  
1913-1938 (film)

Name
  
Alfred Deutsch-German


Role
  
Journalist

Died
  
1943

Born
  
27 September 1870
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Occupation
  
Film director, Screenwriter, Journalist, Playwright

Movies
  
The Last Dawn, Vienna, City of Song

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Alfred Deutsch-German (1870–1943) was an Austrian journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. From 1913 he worked for the Wiener Kunstfilm company as a screenwriter. Between 1922 and 1934 he directed eight films. Deutsch-German worked in the Austrian film industry until the Anchluss of 1938, but with less direct involvement in the production of films towards the end.

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Following the Nazi takeover, the Jewish Deutsch-German went into exile in France. He was later arrested during the German occupation of France and held at the Drancy internment camp. He was later sent on to Auschwitz where he was killed.

Screenwriter

  • The Last Dawn (1917)
  • Das Auge des Buddha (1919)
  • Ludwig II (1922)
  • Vienna, City of Song (1923)
  • Franz Lehar, der Operettenkönig (1925)

    • Director

  • Vienna, City of Song (1923)
  • Franz Lehar, der Operettenkönig (1925)
  • Frau Braier aus Gaya (1926)
  • Der Musikant von Eisenstadt (1934)

    • References

    Alfred Deutsch-German Wikipedia
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