Gustav von Wangenheim (1895 - 1975) جوستاف فون ونجنهايم

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A German actor, director and screenwriter, born February 18, 1895 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1910 and 1960. He joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1921. He founded the communist theater company Die Truppe '31 in 1931, for which...Read more he produced and wrote three plays, before it was closed down by the Nazi regime in 1933. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and took refuge in the Soviet Union, where he continued to write and produce films, such as Der Kampf (1936). After the end of World War II, he settled in East Germany and joined the state-owned film studio DEFA (1946-1992), where he was a film director and screenwriter for several years. His notable credits include Nosferatu (1922) and Woman in the Moon (1929). He died on August 5, 1975 in Berlin, Germany.


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  • A German actor, director and screenwriter, born February 18, 1895 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. He appeared in more than 200 films between 1910 and 1960. He joined the Communist...Read more Party of Germany in 1921. He founded the communist theater company Die Truppe '31 in 1931, for which he produced and wrote three plays, before it was closed down by the Nazi regime in 1933. He fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s and took refuge in the Soviet Union, where he continued to write and produce films, such as Der Kampf (1936). After the end of World War II, he settled in East Germany and joined the state-owned film studio DEFA (1946-1992), where he was a film director and screenwriter for several years. His notable credits include Nosferatu (1922) and Woman in the Moon (1929). He died on August 5, 1975 in Berlin, Germany.

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