Georg Tressler
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1917-01-25 (90 years old)
Deathday
2007-01-06
Place of Birth
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Also known As
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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 pop...
Acting
Production
1956
as Director
1956
as Screenplay
1974
as Director
1989
as Director
1959
as Director
1984
as Director
1980
as Director
1968
as Director
1966
as Director
1957
as Director
1969
as Director
1970
as Director
1958
as Director
1958
as Director
1971
as Director
1963
as Director
1961
as Director
1961
as Director
1975
as Director
1965
as Writer
1965
as Director
1971
as Director
1980
as Director
1967
as Director
1981
as Director
1959
as Producer
1957
as Writer
1958
as Writer
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