Walter Kolm-Veltée (27 December 1910 – 8 March 1999) was an Austrian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He directed nine films between 1933 and 1959. He was the son of Austrian film director

Luise Fleck Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée (1 August 1873–15 March 1950), was an Austrian film director, and has been considered the second ever female feature film director in the world, after Al ...

from her first marriage. He became a respected film director, producer and

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. 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 Judith Holzmeister 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 ''Our Emperor'' () is a 1933 Austria historical film, period comedy film directed by Jacob Fleck and Luise Fleck and starring Karl Ehmann, Alfred Neugebauer and Susi Lanner.Von Dassanowsky p.207 It takes place during the reign of Franz Joseph I of ...

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

Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...

'' (1953) * ''

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'' (1955) * '' Wiener Luft'' (1958) * ''

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'' (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