Gustav Ucicky

Gustav Ucicky

Nacimiento : 1898-07-06, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Muerte : 1961-04-27

Perfil

Gustav Ucicky

Películas

Heritage of Bjorndal
Director
The Priest and the Girl
Director
A priest falls in love with a rich man's daughter.
Das Mädchen vom Moorhof
Director
Beautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden.
Die Heilige und ihr Narr
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Der Edelweißkönig
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Der Jäger von Fall
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Two Blue Eyes
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The Witch
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A Life for Do
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The Chaplain of San Lorenzo
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Until we meet again
Director
This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer.
Cordula
Director
Der Seelenbräu
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After the Storm
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Feature film by Gustav Ucicky
Singende Engel
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Am Ende der Welt
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Das Herz muß schweigen
Director
On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximiliane, but is silent about the ulcers on his hand and the severe pain they have caused. Maximiliane has gotten to know the widower Axel von Bonin and has fallen in love with him. But then she is diagnosed with incurable cancer. To spare Axel the inevitable grief over her impending death, she leaves him and dedicates what is left her life to medicine.
Der gebieterische Ruf
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Späte Liebe
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A drama about marriage in a small town, which takes place at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century.
Homecoming
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A Nazi propaganda film which aims to justify the invasion of Poland by portraying the plight of ethnic Germans in Poland who were discriminated against and oppressed by the Poles, and how they were saved by the intervention of the German army.
Ein Leben lang
Director
In 1910, the landlord's daughter Agnes from the Steiermark gets to know the diplomat Hans. They have a short love affair and then part from one another. Hans gets sent to Beijing, where he marries and American and has a son with her. Agnes, too, has a son by Hans and moves to Vienna, where she works in a restaurant. She is still in love with Hans ...
The Postmaster
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When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.
Mother Love
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Aufruhr in Damaskus
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Frau Sixta
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Word and Deed
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Nazi propaganda film contrasting Germany in the days of the Weimar Republic with contemporary Germany under Adolf Hitler.
The Broken Jug
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The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.
Unter heißem Himmel
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Savoy-Hotel 217
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Joan of Arc
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France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a young woman named Johanna, who claimed that the Archangel Gabriel to be appointed, to save France. First of all doubt the king in their words, but he remembers that the people through this "help of God" is gaining new courage. With the slogan "God and the Virgin!" pulls the revivified victorious army into battle against the English-Burgundian alliance. After Johanna King Charles is crowned at Reims, there breaks the plague over the country in. Now Johanna all the blame on the disaster: God would punish believe in the country for that a heretic; if Johanna were actual a holy, she would deal also with the plague. The waning faith weakens France, England is again on the rise. But Johanna is executed as a witch. Only years later annulled the verdict of the Holy and Johanna explained.
Night in May
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Der junge Baron Neuhaus
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At the End of the World
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Versión francesa de la película Flüchtlinge (1933)
Flüchtlinge
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Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as "Volga Germans", in the Soviet province of Manchuria.
Dawn
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Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they're lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey - either all escape or nobody does.
Un homme sans nom
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The Man Without a Name
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Yorck
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The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.
In the Employ of the Secret Service
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During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
The Flute Concert of Sans-Souci
Director
The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka Frederick the Great) of Prussia and his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in Europe.
The Temporary Widow
Director
Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille steps in, though it becomes apparent that he actually is not an advocate but Kitty's lover and moreover confesses the murder. The widow has to admit that the pictures by her deceased spouse sell much better, only for him to suddenly appear alive.
Hocuspocus
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Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.
The Immortal Vagabond
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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.
Der Sträfling aus Stambul
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Inherited Passions
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Corazones sin rumbo
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A Better Master
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Cafe Electric
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The daughter of a wealthy industrialist falls for a pickpocket.
Tingel Tangel
Director
Feature film directed by Gustav Ucicky
Die Pratermizzi
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The Golden Butterfly
Cinematography
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known. (IMDb)
Should We Be Silent?
Cinematography
Cab No. 13
Director of Photography
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Red Heels
Director of Photography
Triángulo amoroso entre una bailarina de éxito en París, su promotor, un hombre mayor que ella, y un joven diplomático.
Red Heels
Cinematography
Triángulo amoroso entre una bailarina de éxito en París, su promotor, un hombre mayor que ella, y un joven diplomático.
La reina esclava (La luna de Israel)
Cinematography
En Tanis, Egipto, el príncipe Seti, heredero al trono, conoce a la joven Merapi (Luna de Israel) que vive como una esclava en su propio reino y cuyo padre acaba de ser asesinado por un oficial, que quería vengarse de ella por haberle rechazado. Entre Seti y la joven se inicia una especial relación que habrá de enfrentar a los dos países y a otras fuerzas mayores… al tiempo que brota el amor.
Harun al Raschid
Cinematography
A film about the Abbasid Caliph
La avalancha
Director of Photography
Marie ha tenido un hijo de George Vandeau, pero éste ha decidido casarse con Kitty. La tía agonizante de George le obliga a una promesa que termina con él conviviendo con Marie en los alpes europeos. Pero Kitty no se resigna a perder a su ex-prometido...
Young Medardus
Director of Photography
Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.
Sodoma y Gomorra
Director of Photography
Superproducción de la época que adaptaba la historia de Sodoma y Gomorra, dividida en dos partes. 1ª parte (El pecado): Mary Conway, incitada por su ambiciosa madre Agathe, decide casarse con el banquero Jackson Harber -un hombre bastante maduro y con pocos escrúpulos-, pese a que está enamorada del escultor Harry Lighton, quien se desvive por ella. Lighton, despechado, intenta suicidarse y Mary comienza a dar rienda suelta a un incontrolable afán seductor que involucra al hijo del banquero e incluso al sacerdote-tutor que le acompaña. 2ª parte (El castigo): Mary sueña que es Lía, la esposa de Lot y revive, como una mujer pecaminosa, el episodio bíblico de Sodoma y Gomorra. Después se verá a sí misma como la perversa reina de Siria. Esto será muy significativo para su vida.
Labyrinth of Horror
Cinematography
Maud Hartley es una joven con dificultades económicas que vive con su madre y un hermano. Ahora, Maud sirve al ambicioso empresario Thomas Racton, quien ansía el día en que su hija, Gabrielle, se case con el hijo de su competidor. Pero el destino tiene otros planes, y el mismo día en que William Stephenson, pretendiente de su hija va camino a visitarlos, en su sendero se atraviesa la joven Maud y muchas cosas van a cambiar desde entonces.
Mrs. Dane's Confession
Director of Photography
Murder in a suburban hotel: suspect is the British upper-class-woman Dorothy who’s accused of murdering her husband – a fraud who gained wealth with shoddy tricks. Dorothy’s memories unveil piece by piece the prelude to this act of desperation.