Leopold Blonder

Leopold Blonder ( July 1, 1893 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary - September 17, 1932 in Innsbruck , Austria ) was an Austrian film architect and director of German films.

Life

Blonder studied architecture in Vienna before starting to work for Oskar Messter's production company around 1918 . In September 1921 he moved from Vienna to Freiburg im Breisgau . There he met the renowned mountain film specialist Arnold Fanck . For Fanck he set up the films The Mountain of Fate and The Holy Mountain . He then moved to Berlin for five years. At the beginning of the talkie he returned to Fanck again. He was also a film architect for Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker . He died unexpectedly of a typhoid-like disease at the age of 41.

Filmography (selection)

as a film architect, unless otherwise stated

• 1921: Moritz, the dreamer. How Moritz imagines the creation of the world (director)
• 1921: The Great Boxing Match Dempsey - Carpentier (Director)
• 1922: Ali-Baba and the 40 Robbers (director)
• 1922: Soccer game Earth - Mars (director)
• 1922: Chufu (director)
• 1922: On a rushing journey. A sailing sport film and what surgeon Huckebein experienced when it was shot (director)
• 1924: The Mount of Fate
• 1926: The holy mountain
• 1927: attack
• 1927: Manege
• 1927: The Curse of Inheritance
• 1927: Ramper, the animal man
• 1928: Ariadne in Hoppegarten
• 1928: The Adventurer GmbH
• 1928: crooks love
• 1928: Knight of the Night
• 1928: his mother
• 1929: The way through the night
• 1929: Peter, the sailor
• 1929: Madame Lu, the woman for discreet advice
• 1929: The Guard Diva
• 1929: Alimony
• 1929: The death ride in the world record
• 1930: Storms over Mont Blanc
• 1930: two people
• 1931: Mountains in Flames / Les monts en flammes
• 1931: The white intoxication . New wonders of the snowshoe
• 1932: The rebel
• 1932: The Rebel (US version of the previous film)
• 1932: The bang
• 1932: The dancer from Sanssouci
• 1932: The blue light

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 1: A - C. Erik Aaes - Jack Carson. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

• Leopold Blonder at filmportal.de
• Leopold Blonder in the Internet Movie Database (English)