Conrad Wiene
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Conrad Wiene (February 3, 1878, Vienna - after 1933, unknown) was a younger brother of the famous German film director Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), himself also an actor, screenwriter, producer and film director, one of the more productive film directors of Austrian and German silent cinema.
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Conrad Wiene was a son of the successful actor Carl Wiene. He followed his fathers's steps beginning his career on stage and on screen as an actor. He co-directed his first movies with his older brother, later making almost twenty feature films, mostly silent. He scripted most of them. Conrad Wiene was active in Vienna, Berlin, Prague and Breslau (today's Wrocław, Poland). Several of his silent movies were shot in Vienna in Schönbrunn-Atelier. When the sound movies took over the cinema, Wiene worked in Germany.
His name was connected with the first project in 1930 in Vienna, to film a 1925 historical novel by Lion Feuchtwanger, The Jew Suss (Jud Süß), but this project never got into the production stage. The novel has been later filmed in England (in 1934), and a decade later in the Nazi Germany by Veit Harlan (1940). While a British film can be seen today as a sympathetic towards Jews and mildly critical towards the Nazi Germany, the later made German adaptation was an infamous antisemitic film permantly shown during the WWII in all occupied by Germany countries.
After Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, Conrad Wiene left Berlin for Vienna. His later years are unknown.
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- Johann Strauß, K.u. K. Hoffballmusikdirektor (1932), Director
- Durchlaucht amüsiert sich (1931/1932), Director
- So lang' noch ein Walzer von Strauß erklingt (1931), Director
- Madame Blaubart (1930/1931), Director, Producer
- Eine Dirne ist ermordet worden (1930), Director, press screening on February 28, 1930 (Haydn-Kino), the last Austrian silent movie
- Eros in Ketten (1929), Director, Screenplay
- Revolution der Jugend (1929), Director, Screenplay
- vierte von rechts, Die (1928), Director
- Heut' spielt der Strauß (Der Walzerkönig) (1928), Director
- Die kleine Dingsda (1926), Director, Screenplay
- Ich hatt' einen Kameraden (1926), Director
- Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1926), Director
- Zapfenstreich (1925), Director, Screenplay
- krasse Fuchs, Der (1924/25), Director, Screenplay
- Macht der Finsternis, Die (1923), Director
- Erbe, Das (1922/23), Director, Screenplay
- Testament des Ive Sievers, Das (1922), Director
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen [1] (1920), Director
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen [2] (1920), Director
- Spinne, Die (1919), Director
- Zwei Welten (1919), Director, Screenplay
- Am Tor des Lebens (1918), Director
- Der Stärkere (1918), Director, Screenplay
- letzte Erbe von Lassa, Der (1918), Director, Screenplay
- vorsichtige Kapitalist, Der (1918), Director, Screenplay
- verschnupfte Miezerl, Das (1917), Director
- Frieden entgegen, Dem (1917), Director
- Frank Boyers Diener (1917/1918), Director
- Veilchen Nr. 4 (1917), Director
- Mann im Spiegel, Der (1916), Director
- Dame mit der Maske, Die (1916), Director
- Evangelimann, Der (1914), Director
- Waffen der Jugend, Die (1912), Cast
