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Cinema of Austria, the Glossary

Cinema of Austria refers to the film industry based in Austria.^[1]

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Alexander Kolowrat

Count Alexander "Sascha" Joseph von Kolowrat-Krakowsky (29 January 1886 – 4 December 1927) was an Austrian film producer of Bohemian-Czech descent from the House of Kolowrat.

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Alexander Korda

Sir Alexander Korda (born Sándor László Kellner; Korda Sándor; 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956), BFI Screenonline.

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Am Sklavenmarkt

Am Sklavenmarkt (German: "at the slave market") is a 1907 short Austro-Hungarian pornographic film directed by Johann Schwarzer (1880-1914) at his studio Saturn-Film company.

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Amour (2012 film)

Amour (French: "Love") is a 2012 romantic drama film written and directed by the Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert.

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Andrea Maria Dusl

Andrea Maria Dusl (born 12 August 1961), is an Austrian/Swedish film director, author and illustrator.

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Andreas Gruber (director)

Andreas Gruber (born 2 November 1954) is an Austrian screenwriter and director of both television and film.

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Anschluss

The Anschluss (or Anschluß), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 13 March 1938.

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Anton Kolm (12 October 1865 in Vienna as Gustav Anton Kolm – 11 October 1922, also in Vienna) was an Austrian photographer who became one of the first film directors and film producers in the history of Austrian cinema.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder known for his roles in high-profile action films.

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Artur Berger

Artur Semyonovich Berger (Arthur Berger, Артур Семёнович Бергер; 27 May 1892 – 11 January 1981) was an Austrian-Soviet film architect and set designer.

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Attila Hörbiger

Attila Hörbiger (21 April 1896 – 27 April 1987) was an Austrian stage and movie actor.

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Austria

Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Austrian Film Commission

'The Austrian Film Commission (AFC), founded in 1987, is an organisation dedicated to promoting Austrian cinema throughout the world.

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Austrian Film Museum

The Austrian Film Museum (German: Österreichisches Filmmuseum) is a film archive and museum located in Vienna, Austria.

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Austro-Hungarian krone

The krone (alternatively crown; Krone, Korona, Corona, Korona, Krona, Kruna, Koruna, Koruna, Coroană, translit) was the official currency of Austria-Hungary from 1892 (when it replaced the gulden as part of the adoption of the gold standard) until the dissolution of the empire in 1918.

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Axel Corti

Axel Corti (born Axel Fuhrmanns; 7 May 1933 – 29 December 1993) was an Austrian screenwriter, film director and radio host.

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Barbara Albert

Barbara Albert (born in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.

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Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder; June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born filmmaker and screenwriter.

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Bohemia

Bohemia (Čechy; Böhmen; Čěska; Czechy) is the westernmost and largest historical region of the Czech Republic.

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British Academy Film Awards

The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film.

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Brother of Sleep

Brother of Sleep is a 1995 German film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and based on the novel Schlafes Bruder by Austrian writer Robert Schneider.

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Caché (film)

Caché, also known as Hidden, is a 2005 neo-noir psychological thriller film written and directed by Michael Haneke and starring Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche.

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Carl Mayer

Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film.

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Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz (born 4 October 1956) is an actor known for playing villainous and supporting roles in English-language films since 2009.

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Conrad Veidt

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was an actor.

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Constantin Film

Constantin Film AG is a German mini-major film production and distribution company based in Munich.

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Creditanstalt

The Creditanstalt (sometimes Credit-Anstalt, abbreviated as CA), full original name k. k. priv.

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Curd Jürgens

Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 191518 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor.

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D. W. Griffith

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director.

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Darwin's Nightmare

Darwin's Nightmare is a 2004 Austrian-French-Belgian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

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Dog Days (2001 film)

Dog Days (Hundstage) is a 2001 Austrian feature film directed by Ulrich Seidl.

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E. W. Emo

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Edgar G. Ulmer

Edgar Georg Ulmer (September 17, 1904 – September 30, 1972) was a Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output for the Poverty Row studios.

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Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian-British actress.

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Emil Stepanek

Emil Stepanek (21 February 1895 – 12 April 1945) was an Austrian set designer and film architect.

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Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.

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Epic film

Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle.

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Episode (film)

Episode is an Austrian film from 1935.

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Erich Engel

Erich Gustav Otto Engel (14 February 1891 – 10 May 1966) was a German film and theatre director.

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Erich von Stroheim

Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim (born Erich Oswald Stroheim; September 22, 1885 – May 12, 1957) was an Austrian-American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer, most noted as a film star and avant-garde, visionary director of the silent era.

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Ernst Marischka

Ernst Marischka (2 January 1893 – 12 May 1963) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director.

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Erwin Wagenhofer

Erwin Wagenhofer (born 27 May 1961, in Amstetten) is an Austrian author and film director.

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Euro

The euro (symbol: €; currency code: EUR) is the official currency of 20 of the member states of the European Union.

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European Film Promotion (EFP) is an international promotion organisation and a unique network of 38 national film promotion institutes who represent films and talent from their respective territories.

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Experimental film

Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Ferry Radax

Ferry Radax (20 June 1932 – 9 September 2021) was an Austrian film maker born in Vienna, Austria.

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Film

A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.

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Film industry

The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.

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Filmarchiv Austria

The Filmarchiv Austria ("Austrian Film Archive") is an organisation for the discovery, reconstruction and preservation of Austrian film record material: films themselves, literature about film and cinema, or film-related periodicals.

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Franz Antel

Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.

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Franz Novotny

Franz Novotny (born 30 May 1949) is an Austrian film producer, director and screenwriter who was born in Vienna.

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Franz Planer

Franz F. Planer, A.S.C. (29 March 1894 – 10 January 1963) was an Austrian cinematographer born in Karlovy Vary, Austria-Hungary.

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Fred Zinnemann

Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director and producer.

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French New Wave

The New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s.

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Fritz Kortner

Fritz Kortner (born Fritz Nathan Kohn, 12 May 1892 – 22 July 1970) was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.

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G. W. Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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Gaumont Film Company

The Gaumont Film Company, often shortened to Gaumont, is a French film studio headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Founded by the engineer-turned-inventor Léon Gaumont (1864–1946) in 1895, it is the oldest extant film company in the world, established before other studios such as Pathé (founded in 1896), Titanus (1904), Nordisk Film (1906), Universal, Paramount, and Nikkatsu (all founded in 1912).

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Géza von Bolváry

Géza von Bolváry (born Géza Gyula Mária Bolváry Zahn, Géza Maria von Bolváry-Zahn; 26 December 1897 – 10 August 1961) was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.

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Géza von Cziffra

Géza von Cziffra (19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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Georg Misch

Georg Misch (5 April 1878, in Berlin – 10 June 1965, in Göttingen) was a German philosopher.

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Grbavica (film)

Grbavica is a 2006 film by Jasmila Žbanić about the life of a single mother in contemporary Sarajevo in the aftermath of systematic rapes of Bosniak women by Serbian soldiers during the Bosnian War.

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Gusti Huber

Auguste "Gusti" Huber (July 27, 1914 – July 12, 1993) was an Austrian-American actress.

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Hans Janowitz

Hans Janowitz (2 December 1890 – 25 May 1954) was a German author.

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Hans Marr

Hans Marr (born Johann Julius Richter; 22 July 1878 – 21 March 1949) was a German actor.

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Hans Moser (actor)

Hans Moser (6 August 1880 – 19 June 1964) was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films.

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Hans Theyer

Hans Theyer (1884–1955) was an Austrian cinematographer.

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Hans Thimig

Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner (23 July 1900 in Vienna – 17 February 1991, also in Vienna) was an Austrian actor, film director, and stage director.

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Hans Weingartner

Hans Weingartner (born 2 November 1977)Reiter, Barbara (July 24, 2018).

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Harald Sicheritz

Harald Sicheritz (born 25 June 1958 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an Austrian screenwriter and film director.

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Harun al Raschid (film)

Harun al Raschid is a 1924 Austrian film directed by Michael Curtiz.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor.

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Heimatfilm

(German for "homeland-films"; German singular) were films of a genre popular in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

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Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger (né Steinberger; 29 May 1944 – 18 May 2023) was an Austrian actor, known for his portrayal of narcissistic and sexually ambiguous characters.

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Henry Koster

Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director.

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Henry Lehrman

Henry Lehrman (March 30, 1881 – November 7, 1946) was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer.

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Hinterholz 8

Hinterholz 8 is a 1998 Austrian comedy film directed by Harald Sicheritz.

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Horror film

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.

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Hubert Sauper

Hubert Sauper (born 27 July 1966) is an Austrian documentary filmmaker, director, writer, producer, and actor best known for Darwin's Nightmare (2004) which was nominated for an Academy Award.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Indien (film)

Indien is a 1993 Austrian tragicomic road movie directed by Paul Harather.

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Italian neorealism

Italian neorealism (Neorealismo), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class.

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Jacob Fleck

Jacob Fleck (8 November 1881 in Vienna as Jacob Julius Fleck – 19 September 1953, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman.

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Jasmila Žbanić

Jasmila Žbanić (born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Jefferson, North Carolina

Jefferson is a town in and the county seat of Ashe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner (born 6 October 1972) is an Austrian auteur and screenwriter, a professor at Filmacademy Vienna.

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Joe May

Joe May (born Joseph Otto Mandl; 7 November 1880 – 29 April 1954) was an Austrian film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema.

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Johann Schwarzer

Johann Schwarzer (30 August 1880 – 10 October 1914) was an Austrian photographer and pioneer producer of adult films through his Saturn-Film (de) company.

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Josef von Sternberg

Josef von Sternberg (born Jonas Sternberg; May 29, 1894 – December 22, 1969) was an Austrian-born filmmaker whose career successfully spanned the transition from the silent to the sound era, during which he worked with most of the major Hollywood studios.

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Joseph Schildkraut

Joseph Schildkraut (22 March 1896 – 21 January 1964) was an Austrian-American actor.

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Joseph Vilsmaier

Joseph Vilsmaier (24 January 1939 – 11 February 2020) was a German film director who began his career as a technician and cameraman.

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Julius von Borsody

Julius von Borsody (8 April 1892 in Vienna – 18 January 1960, also in Vienna) was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods.

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Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer (born Klaus Georg Steng; 22 June 1943) is an Austrian actor and director.

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Komm, süßer Tod (film)

Komm, süßer Tod (Come Sweet Death) is a 2000 Austrian darkly humorous crime film based on the novel by Wolf Haas of the same name.

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Kurt Kasznar

Kurt Kasznar (born Kurt Servischer; August 13, 1913 – August 6, 1979) was an Austrian-American stage, film and television actor who played roles on Broadway, appearing in the original Broadway productions of Waiting for Godot, The Sound of Music and Barefoot in the Park.

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Kurt Kren

Kurt Kren (born 20 September 1929; died 23 June 1998 in Vienna) was an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker.

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Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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List of Austrian film actors

This article lists notable Austrian actors.

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List of Austrian film directors

The list of Austrian film directors includes Austrian directors and directors born in Austria or Austria-Hungary who made at least one fictional or documentary film for cinema.

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List of cinema of the world

This is a list of cinema of the world by continent and country.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States.

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Lucy Doraine

Lucy Doraine (born Ilona Kovács; 22 May 1898 – 14 October 1989) was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era.

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Luise Fleck

Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée (1 August 1873–15 March 1950), was an Austrian film director, and has been considered the second ever female feature film director in the world, after Alice Guy-Blaché.

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MA 2412

MA 2412 is an Austrian television series that satirizes the bureaucracy in public administration in the form of a fictional "Municipal Department (Magistratsabteilung) for Christmas Decorations" of the city of Vienna.

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Magda Schneider

Magdalena Maria Schneider (17 May 1909 – 30 July 1996) was a German actress and singer.

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María Corda

María Corda (born Mária Antónia Farkas; Korda Mária; 4 May 1898 – 15 February 1976) was a Hungarian actress and a star of the silent film era in Germany and Austria.

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Marcus Loew

Marcus Loew (May 7, 1870 – September 5, 1927) was an American business magnate and a pioneer of the motion picture industry who formed Loew's Theatres and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio (MGM).

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Maria Schell

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926 – 26 April 2005) was an Austrian-Swiss actress.

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Marisa Mell

Marisa Mell (born Marlies Theres Moitzi; 24 February 1939 – 16 May 1992) was an Austrian actress.

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Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, commonly shortened to MGM), is an American media company specializing in film and television production and distribution based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz (born Manó Kaminer; from 1905 Mihály Kertész; Kertész Mihály; December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history.

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Michael Glawogger

Michael Glawogger (3 December 1959 – 23 April 2014) was an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.

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Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke (born 23 March 1942) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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Nadja Tiller

Nadja Tiller (16 March 1929 – 21 February 2023) was an Austrian actress in film, television, and on stage.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Newsreel

A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the mid 1970s.

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Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Nikolaus Geyrhalter (born 1972) is an Austrian filmmaker.

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Northern Skirts

Northern Skirts is a 1999 German-language film directed by Barbara Albert.

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Oscar Beregi (actor, born 1876)

Oscar Beregi (born Oszkár Beregi, 24 January 1876 – 18 October 1965) was a Hungarian-Jewish actor who appeared primarily in German films.

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Oscar Homolka

Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor, who went on to work in Germany, Britain, and America.

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Oskar Werner

Oskar Werner (born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer; 13 November 1922 23 October 1984) was an Austrian stage and cinema actor whose prominent roles include two 1965 films, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Ship of Fools.

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Otto Muehl

Otto Muehl (16 June 1925 – 26 May 2013) was an Austrian artist, who was known as one of the co-founders as well as a main participant of Viennese Actionism and for founding the Friedrichshof Commune.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city and non-metropolitan district in Oxfordshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Pathé

Pathé (styled as PATHÉ!) is a French major film production and distribution company, owning a number of cinema chains through its subsidiary Pathé Cinémas and television networks across Europe.

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Paul Czinner

Paul Czinner (30 May 1890 – 22 June 1972) was a Hungarian-born British writer, film director, and producer.

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Paul Harather

Paul Harather (born 30 March 1965 in Mödling, Lower Austria) is an Austrian film director, producer and screenplay author.

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Paul Henreid

Paul Henreid (January 10, 1908 – March 29, 1992) was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer.

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Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)

Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer (30 June 1926 – 12 February 2011), commonly known as Peter Alexander, was an Austrian actor, singer and one of the most popular entertainers in the German-language world between the 1950s and his retirement.

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Peter Kubelka

Peter Kubelka (born 23 March 1934) is an Austrian filmmaker, architect, musician, curator and lecturer.

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Peter Weibel

Peter Weibel (Austrian German:,, 5 March 1944 – 1 March 2023) was an Austrian post-conceptual artist, curator, and new media theoretician.

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Poppitz

Poppitz is a 2002 Austrian comedy film directed by Harald Sicheritz.

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Reinhard Schwabenitzky

Reinhard Schwabenitzky (23 April 1947 – 9 February 2022) was an Austrian film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Revanche (film)

Revanche is a 2008 Austrian thriller film written and directed by Götz Spielmann.

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Robert Dornhelm

Robert Dornhelm (born 17 December 1947 in Timișoara, Romania) is an Austrian film and television director.

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Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky FRHistS, FRSA (January 28, 1965 – October 10, 2023) was an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer.

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Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene (27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer, active during the silent era.

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Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider (born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach; 23 September 1938 – 29 May 1982) was a German-French actress.

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Ruth Beckermann

Ruth Beckermann (born 1952) is an Austrian filmmaker and writer, who lives and works in Vienna and Paris.

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Ruth Mader

Ruth Mader (born 11 July 1974) is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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Sam Spiegel

Samuel P. Spiegel (November 11, 1901December 31, 1985) was an American independent film producer born in the Galician area of Austria-Hungary.

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Samson and Delilah (1922 film)

Samson und Delila is an Austrian silent film, premiered in Vienna on 25 December 1922.

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Sascha-Film

Sascha-Film, in full Sascha-Filmindustrie AG and from 1933 Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG, was the largest Austrian film production company of the silent film and early sound film period.

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Scenic design

Scenic design, also known as stage design or set design, is the creation of scenery for theatrical productions including plays and musicals.

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Senta Berger

Senta Verhoeven (née Berger; Austrian German:,; born 13 May 1941) is an Austrian-German actress.

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Sex comedy

Sex comedy, erotic comedy or more broadly sexual comedy is a genre in which comedy is motivated by sexual situations and love affairs.

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Silentium (film)

Silentium is a 2004 Austrian film based on a novel by Wolf Haas.

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Sissi (film)

Sissi is a 1955 Austrian historical romance film written and directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider,, Gustav Knuth, Josef Meinrad, Vilma Degischer and Peter Weck.

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Slumming (film)

Slumming is a 2006 Austrian-Swiss comedy film directed by Michael Glawogger.

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Sodom and Gomorrah (1922 film)

Sodom und Gomorrha: Die Legende von Sünde und Strafe ("Sodom and Gomorrah: The Legend of Sin and Punishment"; released in English as Sodom and Gomorrah or Queen of Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrha) is an Austrian silent epic film from 1922.

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Star Film Company

The Manufacture de Films pour Cinématographes, often known as Star Film, was a French film production company run by the illusionist and film director Georges Méliès.

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Stefan Ruzowitzky

Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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The Bone Man

The Bone Man (German: Der Knochenmann) is a 2009 Austrian film directed by Wolfgang Murnberger.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

The Cabinet of Dr.

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The Counterfeiters (2007 film)

The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) is a 2007 Austrian-German drama film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.

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The Edukators

The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) is a 2004 crime drama film directed by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner.

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The Hands of Orlac (1924 film)

The Hands of Orlac (German: Orlacs Hände) is a 1924 Austrian silent film directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina and Fritz Kortner.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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The Moon of Israel

The Moon of Israel (Die Sklavenkönigin, or "The Queen of the Slaves") is a 1924 Austrian epic film.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Piano Teacher (film)

The Piano Teacher (lit) is a 2001 erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Michael Haneke, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by Elfriede Jelinek.

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The Prince and the Pauper (1920 film)

The Prince and the Pauper (German: Prinz und Bettelknabe) is a 1920 Austrian silent adventure film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Tibor Lubinszky, Albert Schreiber, and Adolf Weisse.

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The Quality of Mercy (film)

The Quality of Mercy (original title: Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen) is a dramatization of the events surrounding the Mühlviertler Hasenjagd, a Nazi war crime that took place near Linz, in the Mühlviertel region of Upper Austria, just before the end of the Second World War.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.

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Ulrich Seidl

Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Valie Export

Valie Export (often stylized as 'VALIE EXPORT'; born 17 May 1940) is an avant-garde Austrian artist.

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Vanessa Brown

Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, March 24, 1928 – May 21, 1999) was an Austrian-born American actress who worked in radio, film, theater, and television.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.

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Vienna International Film Festival

The Vienna International Film Festival, or Viennale, is a film festival taking place every October since 1960 in Vienna, Austria.

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Viennese Actionism

Viennese Actionism was a short-lived art movement in the late 20th-century that spanned the 1960s into the 1970s.

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Vita-Film

Vita-Film was an Austrian film production company founded in 1919 as the successor company to Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie by Anton and Luise Kolm.

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Walter Kolm-Veltée

Walter Kolm-Veltée (27 December 1910 – 8 March 1999) was an Austrian film director.

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Walter Reisch

Walter Reisch (May 23, 1903 – March 28, 1983) was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter.

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Walter Slezak

Walter Slezak (3 May 1902 – 21 April 1983) was an Austrian-born film and stage actor active between 1922 and 1976.

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We Feed the World

We Feed the World is a 2005 documentary in which Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat and views modern industrial production of food and factory farming in a critical light.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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Werner Hochbaum

Werner Hochbaum (7 March 1899, Kiel – 15 April 1946) was a German screenwriter, film producer and director.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until the reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. The Cold War-era country is sometimes known as the Bonn Republic (Bonner Republik) after its capital city of Bonn. During the Cold War, the western portion of Germany and the associated territory of West Berlin were parts of the Western Bloc.

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Wien-Film

Wien-Film GmbH ("Vienna Film Limited") was a large Austrian film company, which in 1938 succeeded the Tobis-Sascha-Filmindustrie AG (Sascha Film Company) and lasted until 1985.

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Wiener Film

Wiener Film (German; plural: Wiener Filme; literally, "Viennese film") is an Austrian film genre, consisting of a combination of comedy, romance and melodrama in a historical setting, mostly, and typically, the Vienna of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Wiener Kunstfilm

Wiener Kunstfilm, in full Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie (English: "Vienna Art Film Industry"), was the first major Austrian film production company.

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Willi Forst

Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer.

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William Fox (producer)

Wilhelm Fried Fuchs (Fried Vilmos; January 1, 1879 – May 8, 1952), commonly and better known as William Fox, was a Hungarian-American film industry executive who founded the Fox Film Corporation in 1915 and the Fox West Coast Theatres chain in the 1920s.

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Wirtschaftswunder

The Wirtschaftswunder ("economic miracle"), also known as the Miracle on the Rhine, was the rapid reconstruction and development of the economies of West Germany and Austria after World War II (due to both the Marshall Plan and both governments adopting an ordoliberalism-based social market economy).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Austria

Also known as Austrian Cinema, Austrian film, History of cinema in Austria.

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