Walter Kolm-Veltée (27 December 1910 – 8 March 1999) was an Austrian film director. He directed nine films between 1933 and 1959. He was the son of Austrian film director

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from her first marriage. He became a respected film director, producer and screenwriter. After his earlier career in which he often worked with his mother and stepfather, he founded in 1952 the first film academy in Austria, at the '' Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst'' in Vienna. His film on the life of

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, '' Eroica'', released in 1949, with

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and

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in the leads, is counted as one of the most successful Austrian films ever. In the same way that his parents were pioneers of film, so Walter Kolm-Veltée was a pioneer of the development of the new medium of

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. His 1959 film '' Panoptikum 59'' was entered into the

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Filmography

* '' Unser Kaiser'' (1933) * '' The Poacher from Egerland'' (1934) * '' Csardas'' (1935) * '' Eroica'' (1949) * ''

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'' (1953) * ''

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'' (1955) * '' Wiener Luft'' (1958) * '' Auch Männer sind keine Engel'' (1959) * '' Panoptikum 59'' (1959)

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* 1910 births 1999 deaths Austrian film directors Austrian film producers Austrian male screenwriters Film people from Vienna 20th-century Austrian screenwriters 20th-century Austrian male writers {{Austria-film-director-stub