Hanns Schwarz

Hanns Schwarz was an Austrian film director. He was born in Vienna in 1888. He directed twenty four films between 1924 and 1937 in both English and German. During the late silent and early sound eras he was a leading director at the German giant studio UFA. In the early 1930s he worked on several Multi Language Version films for UFA, producing the same film in distinct German and foreign-language versions. Schwarz was Jewish and was therefore forced to leave Germany in 1933 when the Nazis took over, going into exile in Britain. His last film was the 1937 British thriller Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel. He died in California in 1945.^[1]

Partial filmography

• Nanon (1924)
• The Telephone Operator (1925)
• Hungarian Rhapsody (1928)
• Melody of the Heart (1929)
• The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna (1929)
• Darling of the Gods (1930)
• Burglars (1930)
• Her Grace Commands (1931)
• Monte Carlo Madness (1931)
• Captain Craddock (1931) (French-language version of Monte Carlo Madness, co-director Max de Vaucorbeil)
• Monte Carlo Madness (1932) (English-language version of Monte Carlo Madness)
• Montparnasse Girl (1932)
• Gypsies of the Night (1932)
• Prince of Arcadia (1933)
• Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)

References

Bibliography

• Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence In German And Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.