Eberhard Schmidt (producer)
Eberhard Schmidt (born January 20, 1908 in Essen , † after 1944) was a German film production manager.
Life
Schmidt had received a commercial training. On November 20, 1932 he was appointed director of the production company Pallas-Film and from the end of 1934 worked as a production manager for various companies.
In 1942 the UFA entrusted him with the most comprehensive and ambitious film project of the Third Reich, the splendid furnishing film Münchhausen . For the script for this large-scale production commissioned on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the UFA, Schmidt won the ostracized writer Erich Kästner and, bypassing Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels , was able to get it through with Fritz Hippler , director of the Reichsfilm ; however, Kästner had to write under a pseudonym (Dr. Berthold Bürger).
In the spring of 1945, Eberhard Schmidt and his film staff and a number of actors left Berlin for the " Ostmark " to wait for the war to end. In order not to be picked up by the Wehrmacht or the SS or transferred to the nearby front, the crew faked filming - the work "shot" with cameras without existing film material went down in the annals of German film history as The Lost Face .
At the end of the war, Schmidt's trail is lost.
Filmography
- as production manager
- 1934: The steel beam
- 1935: Battle of the Engines (documentary)
- 1935: The shipyard for the gray pike
- 1935: Ferryman Maria
- 1937: Hussars out!
- 1938: One night in May
- 1939: man for man
- 1939: Miss
- 1939: your first experience
- 1940: love school
- 1940: The small town poet
- 1940: boys
- 1941: Annelie
- 1943: Münchhausen
- 1944: Four flights of stairs on the right
- 1945: Via Mala
Web links
- Eberhard Schmidt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German film production manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | eat |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |