Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl ( born May 10, 1899 in Vienna, † August 29, 1978 ) was an Austrian film director.
Life
Hartl began his film career in 1919 as assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda (eg Samson and Delilah in 1922 ). In the 1920s he went with Korda to Berlin and was there until the mid-1920s the production manager. In 1926 he returned to Vienna and became production manager for Gustav Ucicky.
Since 1930 he worked at the UFA and turned along with Luis Trenker Mountains in Flames ( 1931). Then he tried his hand at other genres, so with the comedy The Countess of Monte Cristo (1932 ) with Brigitte Helm and Gustaf and in the same year by plane film FP1 does not respond with Hans Albers, Peter Lorre, Paul Hartmann and Sybille Schmitz in the lead roles. For this film, the song is Come Fly With me the sun ... which again promoted in the early 1980s by the band Extra wide hit. His elaborate science-fiction movie of 1934 gold is one of the best German of its kind. Karl Hartl was also director of the successful criminal comedy The Man Who, Sherlock Holmes (1937 ). After the connection of Austria in 1938 Hartl was production manager of the Vienna film in which the UFA united their activities in Austria, and came only with their own little film work in appearance.
After 1945, he turned back. On 3 July 1947, he founded in Salzburg with the support of the New Vienna Creditanstalt film production company. One of his most acclaimed movies was The Angel with the Trumpet (1949 ), which brought together many Austrian stars, so Paula Wessely, Attila and Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Werner, Maria Schell.
Karl Hartl was married with the actress Marte Harell. He is buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Hietzing Cemetery (Group 65, number 2) in Vienna, next to his wife.