Max Wogritsch

Birth : 1880-06-06, Dresden, Germany

Death : 1951-03-23

History

Wogritsch had received musical training and played as a cellist before he began his first acting engagement at the Zurich City Theater in 1906 . He stayed there for the next five years and in 1911 moved to the Stadttheater Düsseldorf . Max Wogritsch appeared there until the end of the First World War and, since August 11, 1911, also appeared in films of Düsseldorf and Berlin provenance, including two early Asta Nielsen successes. Based in Berlin since 1919, Wogritsch concentrated on his work for the cinema. From the early 1920s he worked primarily as a unit manager, occasionally also as a production manager. In the 1930s, Wogritsch earned his living as a scheduler and manager in the audio engineering department at Tobis .

Movies

The Immortal Vagabond
Production Manager
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his acceptance in Vienna. But this isn't the happiness he wanted, he becomes a hobo.
Manolescu, the Prince of Adventures
George Manolescu (Ivan Mouskojine) plays a confidence man who works his way from Paris to New York, along the way during a train ride to Monte Carlo he meets the voluptuous as always Cleo (Bigitte Helm) where they have a whirl wind romance which becomes short lived after she flees from him.
The Lost Shoe
Production Manager
One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself.
Die Ehe der Hedda Olsen oder: Die brennende Akrobatin
Die rote Nacht
Die von der Liebe leben
Im Rausche der Sinne
Gräfin Maruschka
Die Sünden der Väter
A Romany Spy
Leutnant Sergej Ipanoff
Gypsy girl Zidra falls in love with the lieutenant she is supposed to spy on.