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Filmmaker · Austria

Gustav Ucicky

Died in 1961

Gustav Ucicky (1899-1961), born in Vienna to an unmarried mother from Prague who modelled for Gustav Klimt, is said to be the painter's son, a paternity never officially established. He joined Sascha-Film at seventeen as a newsreel cameraman and was Kertész's cinematographer during his Viennese years. He left for Germany in 1928 and made nationalist films for Ufa, then propaganda films, approved by the Nazi regime; he was banned from working in 1945, resumed in 1947 and died in Hamburg.

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