Personal Info
Birthday
January 25, 1917
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Known For
Directing
Georg Tressler
Biography
Georg Tressler (born January 25, 1917, in Vienna – died January 6, 2007, in Belgern, Germany) was an Austrian film director known for bringing social realism to postwar German cinema. After early work as an assistant and documentary filmmaker, he achieved major success with Die Halbstarken (1956), which helped launch the career of Horst Buchholz and marked a break from conventional 1950s German filmmaking. Influenced by Italian Neorealism, Tressler favored location shooting and a documentary-style approach, evident in films such as Endstation Liebe and Das Totenschiff. From the 1960s onward, he worked extensively in television, directing popular series and TV films. His work is regarded as an important bridge between postwar cinema and later New German Film movements.
Directed Movies (20)
Castle Hohenstein
Die Hütte am See
Sukkubus
Mrs. Harris - Freund mit Rolls Royce
Der Millionenbauer
Die Kleine mit dem süßen Po
2069: A Sex Odyssey
Keiner erbt für sich allein
Scene of the Crime
Weh' dem, der erbt
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
The Magnificent Rebel
The Wonderful World of Disney
Confessions of a Sixteen-Year-Old
Ship of the Dead
Children of the Mountains
Last Stop Love
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