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Leo Mittler
Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Following the Nazi rise to…
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Leo Mittler (18 December 1893 – 16 May 1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna to a Jewish family. Following the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Mittler spent many years in exile in several countries, including Britain and France, before settling in the United States during 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 MGM pro-Soviet film Song of Russia (1944) which was later investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee for its alleged communist sympathies. Mittler returned to Germany post-war, dying there in 1958. Before his death, he worked in German theatre and television.
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1955
Heimkehr des Helden
Movie Director
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1954
Defraudanten
Movie Director
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1944
Song of Russia
Movie Story
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1943
The Ghost Ship
Movie Story
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1939
The Mayor's Dilemma
Movie Scenario Writer
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1936
The Last Waltz
Movie Director
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1936
Cheer Up
Movie Director
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1936
The Last Waltz
Movie Director
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1935
Honeymoon for Three
Movie Director
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1933
La Voix sans visage
Movie Director
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1933
Amour et publicité
Movie Director
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1932
The Night at the Hotel
Movie Director
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1932
Nights in Port Said
Movie Director
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1931
The concert
Movie Director
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1931
Frivolous youth
Movie Director
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1931
Tropical Nights
Movie Director
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1931
Every Woman Has Something
Movie Director
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1931
Sunday of Life
Movie Director
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1930
The King of Paris
Movie Director
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1930
There is a woman who will never forget you
Movie Director
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1929
Harbour Drift
Movie Director
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1928
Serenissimus und die letzte Jungfrau
Movie Director
