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Director, born in Austo-Hungary (now Czech Republic) on the 25th of August, 1885, died on the 29th of May, 1967.
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst was born on the 25th of August, 1885, in the city of Raudnitz in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present day Roudnice, Czech Republic). He studied at the Vienna Academy before entering the theatrical world as a stage director in 1906.
After WWI, during which he was away in the US and then in France, he returned to Vienna and became involved in the burgeoning avant-garde film movement, directing his first movie, The Treasure, in 1923. He refined his style of filmmaking, which might be defined as gritty realism tinged with bleak impressionism, with such greats as Greta Garbo in 1925’s A Joyless Street and Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl, in 1928 and ’29.
In 1930, he released his first talkie, an anti-war film called Westfront 1918, and in 1934, the tragic A Modern Hero, his only American film. Finding himself trapped in Nazi Germany, he directed two government sponsored propaganda films, 1943’s Paracelsus, a docudrama following the life of a miraculous 16th century German doctor, being one.
In 1948, after WWII, Pabst made The Trial, a condemnation of Nazism and anti-Semitism. He continued making movies around Europe before his retirement following the 1956 romance Through the Forests, Through the Trees. Pabst died on the 29th of May, 1967 in Vienna, Austria.
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