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Robert Herlth
Wriezen, Brandenburg, Germany
Influential German art director, the son of a brewer. Herlth studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Between 1916 and 1918, he designed his first theatrical sets d…
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Influential German art director, the son of a brewer. Herlth studied at the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Berlin. Between 1916 and 1918, he designed his first theatrical sets during wartime army service in Vilnius, collaborating with the set designer Hermann Warm. From 1922, he worked in tandem with Walter Röhrig on some of the most seminal motion pictures made by Ufa. He put into being at once elaborate and massive baroque sets for stage and screen, as well as the distorted, expressionist visions of directors like Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Herlth also excelled at creating the simpler sets required for the more intimate and naturalistic Kammerspielfilms. His best work in both categories is well exemplified by The Last Laugh (1924), Faust (1923), Congress Dances (1931) and Amphitryon (1935). The partnership with Roehrig ended in 1936 and Herlth began to work on more commercial properties. After the war, he alternated routine entertainments (Das doppelte Lottchen (1950), Im Weissen Rössl (1952) with the occasional masterpiece (Film Without a Name (1948)). For his work on the two-part adaptation of The Buddenbrooks (1959) he was awarded the German Film Award (Bundesfilmpreis) in 1959. - IMDb mini biography by: I.S.Mowis
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1961
Jack Mortimer
Movie Production Design
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1960
Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben
Movie Production Design
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1959
Buddenbrooks - 2. Teil
Movie Production Design
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1959
Buddenbrooks - 1. Teil
Movie Art Direction
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1958
The Trapp Family in America
Movie Set Decoration
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1958
Taiga
Movie Production Design
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1958
The Spessart Inn
Movie Production Design
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1957
The Last Ones Shall Be First
Movie Production Design
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1957
Confessions of Felix Krull
Movie Production Design
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1956
The Trapp Family
Movie Set Decoration
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1955
Geliebte Feindin
Movie Production Design
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1955
Solang es hübsche Mädchen gibt
Movie Production Design
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1955
Magic Fire
Movie Art Direction
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1954
The Life of Surgeon Sauerbruch
Movie Production Design
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1953
The Divorcée
Movie Production Design
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1953
The Chaplain of San Lorenzo
Movie Production Design
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1952
Unnatural
Movie Set Decoration
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1952
Die Försterchristl
Movie Production Design
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1952
Behind Monastery Walls
Movie Production Design
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1951
Der Teufel führt Regie
Movie Art Direction
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1950
Two Times Lotte
Movie Production Design
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1949
Verspieltes Leben
Movie Production Design
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1939
Opera Ball
Movie Production Design
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1937
The Broken Jug
Movie Production Design
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1937
The Sovereign
Movie Production Design
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1936
Hans in Luck
Movie Director
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1936
The Royal Waltz
Movie Production Design
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1935
The Royal Waltz
Movie Art Direction
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1935
Les dieux s'amusent
Movie Production Design
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1935
Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds
Movie Production Design
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1935
Rêve éternel
Movie Art Direction
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1934
The Eternal Dream
Movie Art Direction
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1933
Cairo Season
Movie Production Design
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1933
The Only Girl
Movie Art Direction
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1933
Dawn
Movie Art Direction
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1932
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Movie Production Design
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1931
The Small Gap
Movie Art Direction
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1931
Congress Dances
Movie Art Direction
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1931
The Little Escapade
Movie Production Design
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1931
In the Employ of the Secret Service
Movie Art Direction
