Gottfried Reinhardt

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Gottfried Reinhardt (born March 20, 1913 in Berlin ; † July 18, 1994 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian-American film producer and director .

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The son of the director and theater entrepreneur Max Reinhardt and the actress Else Heims attended the French high school in Berlin . After graduating from high school, he became an actor and director at the Deutsches Theater , which was directed by his father. At the Deutsches Theater he staged the world premiere of a theater adaptation of Erich Kästner's Pünktchen and Anton .

In 1932 he went to the USA to study, where he stayed after the National Socialists came to power . He was assistant director of Ernst Lubitsch in Hollywood. Soon after, he signed a contract with the MGM film company as editor, story auditor and production assistant . In these roles, he was involved in several films, including 1938 The Great Waltz ( The Great Waltz ).

Reinhardt, now an American citizen, worked as a production manager and producer from 1940. In 1941 he produced Greta Garbo's film Farewell, The Woman with Two Faces . He then served four years in the army, where he engaged in the making of films.

In 1951 he made his directorial debut with the melodrama Borrowed Luck ( Invitation ). In 1954 Reinhardt returned to Germany, where he filmed Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Before Sunset with the leading actor Hans Albers . For this he received the Golden Bear Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1956 . Reinhardt's German films are stylistically part of the educated citizens' cinema of the Adenauer era, which was cultivated at the time.

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  • The lover / memories of his son Gottfried Reinhardt to Max Reinhardt , Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1973 ISBN 3-426-05576-7

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SURNAME Reinhardt, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1994
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States