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Otto Kreisler

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Occupation
  
Film director

Years active
  
1918-1922 (film)

Name
  
Otto Kreisler


Born
  
1 November 1890
Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Died
  
1970 London, United Kingdom

Otto Kreisler (1890–1970) was an Austrian film director of the silent era. Kreisler was of Jewish background, and directed films with largely Jewish themes such as The Jewess of Toledo and Theodor Herzl, Standard-Bearer of the Jewish People. He was later forced to emigrate to Britain due to the Nazis.

Selected filmography

  • The Jewess of Toledo (1919)
  • Maria Magdalena (1919)
  • Wandering Jew (1920)
  • Theodor Herzl (1921)
  • Ludwig II (1922)
  • References

    Otto Kreisler Wikipedia