August Rieger
{{Short description|Austrian film director}}
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| birth_date = 21 March 1914
| birth_place = Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire
| death_date = 3 September 1984 (aged 70)
| death_place = Feldafing, Bavaria, West Germany
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| occupation = Director, Screenwriter, Producer
| yearsactive = 1951–1980 (film)
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August Rieger (1914–1984) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director.Fritsche p.253Goble p.158 He worked in the Austrian and later the West German film industry.
Selected filmography
- The Fall of Valentin (1951)
- If I Only Have Your Love (1953)
- The Blue Danube (1955)
- The Doctor's Secret (1955)
- Forest Liesel (1956)
- Her Corporal (1956)
- Imperial and Royal Field Marshal (1956)
- Candidates for Marriage (1958)
- Hello Taxi (1958)
- Girls for the Mambo-Bar (1959)
- Der Orgelbauer von St. Marien (1961)
- Das Mädel aus dem Böhmerwald (1965)
- Always Trouble with the Teachers (1968)
- Peter und Sabine (1968)
- Help, I Love Twins (1969)
- The Seven Red Berets (1969)
- The Young Tigers of Hong Kong (1969)
- When the Mad Aunts Arrive (1970)
- The Vampire Happening (1971)
- Charley's Nieces (1974)
- Revenge of the East Frisians (1974)
- Monika and the Sixteen Year Olds (1975)
References
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Bibliography
- Fritsche, Maria. Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity . Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0726189}}
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Category:Austrian film directors
Category:Film people from Vienna
Category:Austrian screenwriters
Category:Austrian emigrants to Germany
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