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Willy Reiber
1898 - 1980 |
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. The production designer Willy Reiber finished an education as an interior designer before he became the head architect for the buildup of the film compound at the Geiselgasteig. He joined the film business after the buildup and he created the set for numerous silent movies of the 20s. To his well-known works of those years belong "Der Teufel von Costalizza" (20), "I.N.R.I." (20), "Der Verfluchte" (21), "Der Favorit der Königin" (22), "Monna Vanna" (22), "Taras Bulba" (24), "Der Löwe von Venedig" (24), Alfred Hitchcocks "The Mountain Eagle" (26), "Kreuzer Emden" (26) and "Marquis d'Eon, der Spion der Pompadour" (28). His last works as a production designer came at the beginning of the 30s into being for "Die Mutter der Kompagnie" (31), "Peter Voss, der Millionendieb" (32) and "Ein Mann mit Herz" (33). Willy Reiber also directed few movies as a director from 1925, among them "In den Sternen steht es geschrieben" (25), "Klettermaxe" (27), "Die Hölle von Montmartre" (28) and "Spuren im Schnee" (29). He realised his last movies as a director in the 30s with "Johannisnacht" (33) and "Donaumelodien" (36). Beside it Willy Reiber was also responsible as a production manager for several movies like "Die Fahrt ins Grüne" (33), "Hanneles Himmelfahrt" (34), "5 Millionen suchen einen Erben" (38) and "Titanic" (43) before he became a producer of the productions "Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen" (38), "Der Feuerteufel" (40), "Meine vier Jungens" (44) and "Wir sehn uns wieder" (45). After the war he took over the position of a production head of the TV station ARD, later he changed to the Bayerischer Rundfunk. His brother Ludwig Reiber was a production designer too.
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