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Franz Osten (born December 23, 1876 in Munich , † December 2, 1956 in Bad Aibling ; actually Franz Ostermayr ) was a German film director . He worked in both Germany and India .
Life
Franz Osten first learned the profession of photographer . He first used the film medium, which was new at the time , to make documentaries .
Together with his brother Peter Ostermayr , he founded a traveling cinema in 1907, the "Original Physograph Company". After showing films, he also started making films.
In 1919 he made the first film shot in Geiselgasteig by Emelka , his brother's film production company.
His filmmaking was interrupted by the First World War . After returning from this, Franz Osten secured the film rights to the novels by Ludwig Ganghofer . The mixture of beautiful surroundings, an intact world, noble people, threats and betrayals, great emotions, drama and happy endings made the studio very successful.
The London-based Indian lawyer and philosopher Himansu Rai , who occasionally acted, wanted to set up an Indian film studio. Rai initially wanted to make films about the religions of the East for a Western audience and contacted the Ostermayr brothers. They saw an opportunity to make films in the exotic environment with maharajas , tigers and primeval forests that were supposed to fascinate the German audience. In 1924, Osten went to India with the Emelka cameramen Willi Kiermeier and Josef Wirsching, as well as the assistant director and interpreter Bertl Schultes , where they shot the German-Indian coproduction The Light of Asia ( Prem Sanyas , 1925), a film about Gautama Buddha . After his return he filmed again in Munich, but went back to India about two years later and staged The Tomb of a Great Love ( Shiraz , 1928), a historical romance in the Mughal era , and Dice of Fate ( Prapancha Pash , 1929). The movie Die Schicksalswürfel was not only a great commercial success, it also boosted the pride of the Indian film industry tremendously because of its opulence .
In 1934, Osten returned to Bombay and began making Indian films with Himansu Rai , his wife Devika Rani and other actors for Bombay Talkies . In the four years from 1935 to 1939 Franz Osten led there at sixteen feature films directed and was one of the pioneers of Bollywood -Filmproduktionen of Indian film .
In 1939 he began filming Kangan ( The Bangle ), but was unable to finish the film. With the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 he was arrested by the British as an enemy alien and interned in India . Thus the film was completed by his Indian colleagues.
In 2001 Gerald Koll portrayed Franz Ostens work in India in the documentary Ein Sonderling im Orient .
Filmography
as a director, unless otherwise stated
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- Christian Lukas : A Bavarian as the father of Bollywood cinema . In: Die Rheinpfalz of March 31, 2008, page DVD
Web links
- Franz Osten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carl-Erdmann Schonfeld: Franz Osten's 'the Light of Asia': A German-Indian film of Prince Buddha - 1926 ( Memento from January 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | East, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Franz Ostermayr (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 1956 |
| Place of death | Bad Aibling |