The Emperor Waltz was directed by which Austrian-American filmmaker?
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The Emperor Waltz The Emperor Waltz (German: "Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame" ) is a 1948 American musical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine. Written by Wilder and Charles Brackett, the film is about a brash American gramophone salesman in Austria at the turn of the twentieth century who tries to convince Emperor Franz Joseph to buy a gramophone so the product will gain favor with the Austrian people. "The Emperor Waltz" was inspired by a real-life incident involving Franz Joseph I of Austria. Filmed on location in Jasper National Park in Canada, the film premiered in London, Los Angeles, and New York in the spring of 1948, and was officially released in the United States July 2, 1948. In 1949, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Music, as well as a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Musical.
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Billy Wilder Samuel "Billy" Wilder ( ; ] ; June 22, 1906March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist whose career spanned more than five decades. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age. With "The Apartment", Wilder became the first person to win Academy Awards as producer, director, and screenwriter for the same film.
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Farewell to St. Petersburg (film) Farewell to St. Petersburg Russian: Прощание с Петербургом , "Proshchaniye s Peterburgom " is a 1972 Soviet biopic film directed by Yan Frid. The film is about the Austrian composer Johann Strauss's stay in Russia, his concerts in Pavlovsk in the summer of 1857, and his love towards the Russian aristocrat Olga Smirnitskiy, to whom he dedicated several works.
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Sebastian Thaler Sebastian Thaler (born 27 September 1986 in Vienna) is a Cinematographer.
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Willi Forst Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as "Wiener Filme". From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG.
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Amadeus (film) Amadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play "Amadeus". The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the movie. The film follows Italian composer Antonio Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II, and his jealous vendetta against his younger rival, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Frederick Loewe Frederick Loewe ( , originally German "Friedrich (Fritz) Löwe" ] ; June 10, 1901 – February 14, 1988), was an Austrian-American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot", both of which were made into films.
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Rudolf Nussgruber Rudolf Nussgruber (7 April 1918 – 26 July 2001) was an Austrian film director. In 1962, he co-directed the documentary film "Mediterranean Holiday" with Hermann Leitner and it was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. He directed more than 30 films between 1955 and 1985.
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Waltz Time (1945 film) Waltz Time is a 1945 British musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Carol Raye, Peter Graves and Patricia Medina. In Imperial Vienna a young Grand Duchess is prevented from marrying the man she loves.
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Pushkin is Our Everything Pushkin is Our Everything (Russian: Пушкин - наше всё ) is a 2014 American documentary film directed, written, and produced by Michael Beckelhimer. The film is about life and times of the 19th century Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin and his lasting influence and legacy on 200 years of Russian history.
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Thomas Steiner Thomas Steiner [ˈstaɪnər](born 1956), is an Austrian experimental film director of short films, and painter.
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The Last Waltz (1934 film) The Last Waltz (German: Der letzte Walzer) is a 1934 German operetta film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Ernst Dumcke, Max Gülstorff and Iván Petrovich. It is based on the 1920 operetta "The Last Waltz" by Oscar Straus. It was remade in English in 1936.
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Tennessee Waltz (film) Tennessee Waltz or Tennessee Nights is a 1989 American thriller film directed by Nicolas Gessner and starring Julian Sands, Stacey Dash, and Ed Lauter. It was adapted for the screen by Laird Koenig from the novel by Hans Werner Kettenbach.
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Herta Staal Herta Staal is an Austrian film and television actress.
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Leopold Lummerstorfer Leopold Lummerstorfer (born 1968 in Gramastetten, Austria) is an Austrian film director, author and producer. He resides in Vienna and near Kapuvár.
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Anni (film) Anni is a 1948 Austrian-German romance film directed by Max Neufeld and starring Elfie Mayerhofer, Siegfried Breuer and Josef Meinrad. It is part of the genre of Vienna films.
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Antoni Stutz Antoni Stutz is a Swiss/German filmmaker, painter and photographer.
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Peter Ladue Peter Ladue (born 1950) is an American film director and writer. In 1981, Ladue and Roland Halle' won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject for producing "". Incorporating interviews, archival footage, and animation, the film chronicles the life of Karl Hess.
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Louis Massiah Louis J. Massiah is an American documentary filmmaker.
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Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir, AM ( ; born 21 August 1944) is an Australian film director.
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Andreas Horvath Andreas Horvath (born 25 August 1968 in Salzburg) is an Austrian photographer and filmmaker.
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Inglourious Basterds Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, one planned by Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent), a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, and the other by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt). Christoph Waltz co-stars as Hans Landa, an SS colonel tracking down Raine's group and who has a connection to Shosanna's past. The film's title was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's macaroni combat film, "The Inglorious Bastards" (1978).