Helmut Weiss

Helmut Weiss
Born	(1907-01-25)25 January 1907 Göttingen, Lower Saxony German Empire
Died	13 January 1969(1969-01-13) (aged 61) West Berlin, West Germany
Occupation(s)	Actor, Screenwriter, Film Director
Years active	1935–1969

Helmut Weiss (January 25, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was a German actor, screenwriter, and film director. He was notable for directing Tell the Truth, the first film produced after the Second World War in what was to become West Germany . It was made in Hamburg in the British Zone of Occupation.^[1] Much of the film had already been made at the UFA studios in Berlin shortly before the arrival of the Red Army, but Weiss dramatically re-shot it. The film was significant in its use of outdoor locations in common with other post-war rubble films.

Selected filmography

Actor

• Trouble Backstairs (1935)
• Scandal at the Fledermaus (1936)
• Back in the Country (1936)
• Family Parade (1936)
• Nanon (1938)
• Kitty and the World Conference (1939)
• The Leghorn Hat (1939)
• The Girl from Fano (1941)
• The Gasman (1941)
• Rembrandt (1942)
• Love and Trumpets (1954)
• Oasis (1955)
• Fanny Hill (1964)

Screenwriter

• I Entrust My Wife to You (1943)
• Hello, Fraulein! (1949)
• Beloved Liar (1950)
• Street Serenade (1953)
• Santa Lucia (1956)
• Paradise for Sailors (1959)

Director

• Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)
• Quax in Africa (not completed during the Reich; allied ban in 1945; shown in West Germany in 1953)
• Tell the Truth (1946)
• King of Hearts (1947)
• Tromba (1949)
• Don't Dream, Annette (1949)
• The Secret of the Red Cat (1949)
• The Disturbed Wedding Night (1950)
• My Friend the Thief (1951)
• The Secret of a Marriage (1951)
• Once on the Rhine (1952)
• Hubertus Castle (1954)
• Love and Trumpets (1954)
• The First Day of Spring (1956)
• Engagement at Wolfgangsee (1956)
• Lemke's Widow (1957)
• An American in Salzburg (1958)
• Every Day Isn't Sunday (1959)
• Whisky, Wodka, Wienerin [de] (1959)
• Three Men in a Boat (1961)

References

1. Kreimeier, p. 375.

Bibliography

• Kreimeier, Klaus (1999). The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22069-0.

External links

• Helmut Weiss at IMDb