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Gustav Ucicky

1898 - 1961

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Gustav Ucicky was born as the illegitimate son of the famous painter Gustav Klimt. He began his extensive film career already at the age of 17, when he applied to the Sascha filmfactory where he got the job of a camera assistant.
When he collected first experiences as a cameraman for documentary films he took pictures for the feature film "Die Dame mit dem schwarzen Handschuh" (19) for the first time. In the following years Gustav Ucicky captured with his camera some important silent movies onto the screen, among them "Narren der Liebe" (21), "Wege des Schreckens" (21), "Sodom und Gomorrha" (22) and "Die Mühle von Sanssouci" (26) and worked together with director Michael Kertesz which later became famous in Hollywood as Michael Curtis.

In 1927 he set beside the camera for ever and carried on the position of a director from now on.

Gustav Ucicky signed a contract with the Ufa in 1929 which guaranteed him an agreeable budget for the coming years with which he was able to stage demanding talkies.
Movies like "Hokuspokus" (30), "Das Flötenkonzert von Sanssouci" (30), "Yorck" (31), "Flüchtlinge" (33) or "Unter heissem Himmel" (36) established him as a successful director.

After his leaving from the Ufa he shot movies like "Der Postmeister" (40), "Ein Leben lang" (40) and "Am Ende der Welt" (44) for the Wien-Film GmbH from 1939.

After the war his cinematical activities dropped off gradually. He produced only one film a year, among them "Nach dem Sturm" (48), "Cordula" (50), "Die Hexe" (54), "Das Mädchen vom Moorhor (58) and "Das Erbe von Björndal" (60).

During the shootings to "Das letzte Kapitel" (61) died Gustav Ucicky as a result of a brainbeat. The movies was ended by Wolfgang Liebeneiner.

Gustav Ucicky was married with the actress Betty Bird.
 

Other movies from Gustav Ucicky (Director, Cinematographer):
Gold (19) Boccaccios Liebesnächte (19) Marquis Fun (19) Golgatha (20) Der Stern von Damaskus (20) Die Dame mit den Sonnenblumen/Giftblumen (20) Gefesselt/Leben um Leben/Der Vogel im Käfig (20) Herzogin Satanella (21) Herzen im Sturm/Marodeure der Grossstadt (21) Dorothy's Bekenntnis (21) Der junge Medardus (23) Die Lawine (23) Namenlos/Der Scharlatan/Der falsche Arzt (23) Harun al Raschid (24) Die Sklavenkönigin (24) Das Spielzeug von Paris (25) Einspänner Nr. 13/Fiaker Nr. 13 (26) Dürfen wir schweigen? (26) Der goldene Schmetterling (26) Die dritte Eskadron (26) Die Pratermizzi (26) Tingel-Tangel (27) Café Elektric/Die Liebesbörse (27) Ein besserer Herr (28) Herzen ohne Ziel (28) Vererbte Triebe (29) Der Sträfling aus Stambul (29) Der unsterbliche Lump (29) Im Geheimdienst (31) Mensch ohne Namen (32) Morgenrot (33) Der junge Baron Neuhaus (34) Das Mädchen Johanna (35) Savoy-Hotel 217 (36) Der zerbrochene Krug (37) Wort und Tat (38) Frau Sixta (38) Aufruhr in Damaskus (39) Mutterliebe (39) Heimkehr (41) Späte Liebe (43) Der gebieterische Ruf (44) Das Herz muss schweigen (44) Singende Engel (47) Der Seelenbräu (49) Bis wir uns wiedersehen (52) Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo (53) Ein Leben für Do (53) Zwei blaue Augen (55) Der Jäger von Fall (56) Der Edelweisskönig (57) Die Heilige und ihr Narr (57) Der Priester und das Mädchen (58)


 
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