Hermann Millakowsky

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Hermann Chaim Millakowsky (born July 27, 1890 in Memel , East Prussia , Germany , † February 12, 1987 in Beverly Hills , California , United States ) was a German film producer .

Live and act

Hermann Millakowsky studied at the University of Königsberg , which he completed with a doctorate . He then found employment as a newspaper reporter in Berlin. Immediately after the end of the First World War , from 1919 to 1924, Millakowsky worked in a bank and was then employed by the film production company Greenbaum-Film GmbH. After the death of the company's founder Jules Greenbaum, he worked for them as general manager and producer. Millakowsky's greatest success was the early sound film fun play in 1931, Die Privatsekretärin with Renate Müller in the title role. Hermann Millakowsky finally founded his own company with HM-Film in 1931.

As a result of the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, the Jew Millakowsky had to stop the film production and then fled to France. In Paris he founded Milo-Films, with which he produced several entertainment films until 1939 under the direction of other exiles such as Max Ophüls , Robert Wiene and Victor Tourjansky . In 1937 he hired his Jewish colleague Gabriel Levy, who had also fled the Nazis, as his head of distribution . Another professional mainstay of Millakowski was the acquisition of books and manuscripts as well as their legal protection.

After the Wehrmacht invaded France in 1940, Hermann Millakowsky fled to New York via Casablanca in 1942 . In Hollywood he tried to continue making films as an independent producer with little experience, but the East Prussian, who in the USA shortened his first name Hermann by an "n", was only able to make B-films for the companies Monogram Pictures and Republic Pictures. After temporarily returning to Europe in the 1950s, Hermann Millakowsky succeeded in producing an important film for the last time in 1954: With Ingrid Bergman and Mathias Wieman in the leading roles, he had Bergman's husband Roberto Rossellini film the Stefan Zweig novella “ Angst ”. In the same year Hermann Millakowsky returned home to California and spent his old age there. His wife Rachel, born in 1894, died in November 1975, and he himself died in February 1987 at the age of 96.

Filmography

  • 1925: Sin Babylon
  • 1925: The untouched woman
  • 1925: Our daily bread
  • 1926: The Feldherrnhügel
  • 1926: The girl from the swing
  • 1926: Escape to the circus
  • 1926: Potsdam, the fate of a residence
  • 1927: The master of the world
  • 1927: The three no-man's children
  • 1927: The golden abyss
  • 1928: The President
  • 1928: The Tsar's adjutant
  • 1928: The Republic of the Backfish
  • 1929: Gimmicks by an empress
  • 1929: Schönbrunn's favorite
  • 1930: The King of Paris
  • 1930: two worlds
  • 1930: The private secretary
  • 1931: Opera redoubt
  • 1932: Gypsies of the Night
  • 1932: overnight happiness
  • 1934: Antonia, romance hongroise / Temptation
  • 1935: Black eyes (Les yeux noirs)
  • 1936: Volga boatmen (Les bateliers de la Volga)
  • 1937: Yoshiwara
  • 1937: Dunja (nostalgia)
  • 1938: ultimatum
  • 1939: Rappel immédiat
  • 1943: Women in Bondage
  • 1944: Faces in the Fog
  • 1945: Girls of the Big House
  • 1946: Murder in the Music Hall
  • 1952: Bal Tabarin
  • 1954: fear (La paura)

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 347.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ the years 1891 and 1892 (California Death Index), which are sometimes in circulation, are not applicable
personal data
SURNAME Millakowsky, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Millakowsky, Hermann Chaim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Memel , East Prussia , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1987
Place of death Beverly Hills , California , United States