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Filmmaker · Austria

Hans Karl Breslauer

Died in 1965

Hans Karl Breslauer (1888-1965), the son of a Viennese café owner, was an actor in Cologne, Wiesbaden and Vienna, then a screenwriter in Berlin from 1910. A director from 1918, he made some twenty films, headed the company Mondial-Film in 1921 and founded his own production company. After 1924, no film of his is known: he wrote stories, often under a pseudonym, joined the Nazi party in 1940 and died in Salzburg.

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