Otto Preminger

Otto Preminger was born in 1905 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of a Jewish prosecutor who, according to the family, refused to convert to Catholicism in order to obtain the highest post in the prosecution service. A doctor of law of Vienna in 1928, he ran the Josefstadt theatre for Max Reinhardt, then went to the United States in 1935. He directed more than thirty-five films in almost fifty years, became his own producer from 1953, confronted the censors several times and, in 1960, had the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was on the blacklist, credited under his own name. He died in New York in 1986.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaLauraOtto Preminger · 1944Cinema
• CinemaAnatomy of a MurderOtto Preminger · 1959Cinema