Wolfgang Glück (29 September 1929 – 13 December 2023) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His film ''

'38 – Vienna Before the Fall 38 – Vienna Before the Fall'' () is a 1987 Austrian-West German international co-production, co-produced drama film directed by Wolfgang Glück. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards. ...

'' (1987) was nominated for the

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...

at the

59th Academy Awards The 59th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 30, 1987, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During ...

. Glück died on 13 December 2023, at the age of 94.

Selected filmography

As director * '' Endangered Girls'' (1958) * ''

Girls for the Mambo-Bar ''Girls for the Mambo-Bar'' () is a 1959 West German crime film directed by Wolfgang Glück and starring Kai Fischer, Gerlinde Locker and Jimmy Makulis.Lembach p.323 The film's sets were designed by the art directors Felix Smetana. Cast * Kai F ...

'' (1959) * ''Traumnovelle'' (1969, TV film) — (based on ''

Dream Story ''Rhapsody: A Dream Novel'', also known as ''Dream Story'' (), is a 1926 novella by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. The book deals with the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two-day period after his wife ...

'') * ''Doppelspiel in Paris'' (1972, TV film) * ''Agent aus der Retorte'' (1972, TV film) * '' The Count of Luxemburg'' (1972) — (based on ''

Der Graf von Luxemburg ''Der Graf von Luxemburg'' (''The Count of Luxembourg'') is an operetta in three acts by Franz Lehár to a German libretto by Alfred Maria Willner, Alfred Willner, Robert Bodanzky, and Leo Stein (writer), Leo Stein. A Viennese take on Bohemianism, ...

'') * ''Wunschloses Unglück'' (1974, TV film) — (based on ''

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams ''A Sorrow Beyond Dreams'' () is a 1972 semi-autobiographical novella by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It describes the life of Handke's mother Maria, who committed suicide on 19 November 1971. Reception Thomas Curwen of the ''Los Angeles Ti ...

'') * ' (1976, TV film) — (based on a short story by

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) * ' (1978, TV film) — (based on short stories by

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and

W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German un ...

) * ' (1981) — (based on the novel ''Young Gerber'' by

Friedrich Torberg Friedrich Torberg (16 September 1908, Vienna, Alsergrund – 10 November 1979, Vienna) is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian writer. Biography He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish h ...

) * ''

Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...

: Mord in der Oper'' (1981, TV series episode) * ''Brigitta'' (1982, TV film) — (based on a novella by

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) * ''

'' (1987) — (based on a novel by

) As actor * ''

Adventure in Vienna ''Adventure in Vienna'' () is a 1952 Austrian crime thriller film directed by Emil E. Reinert and starring Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers and Adrienne Gessner.Fritsche p.243 It is an adaptation of the 1933 novel '' I Was Jack Mortimer'' by Al ...

'' (1952) * ''

Red Sun ''Red Sun'' (, ) is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by Terence Young and starring Charles Bronson, Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Ursula Andress, and Capucine. The Franco-Italian international co-production was filmed in Spain by the ...

'' (1970), as Mercedes driver * '' Funny Games'' (1997), as Robert

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* 1929 births 2023 deaths Austrian film directors Austrian screenwriters Austrian male screenwriters Film people from Vienna Austrian television directors University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni {{Austria-film-director-stub