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Robert Heymann
German screenwriter and film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Heymann (1879–1946) was a German screenwriter and film director active during the silent era.[1] He began as a playwright in 1901 and also wrote novels. He worked with the Berlin-based production company Luna Film. For them he directed the four-part Satan's Memoirs, the second most expensive German film made during the First World War.[2] The 1931 film Panic in Chicago was adapted from his novel of the same title.[3] Of Jewish heritage he had to leave Germany following the Nazi takeover.
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Selected filmography
- Lola Montez (1918)
- Cain (1918)
- Victim of Society (1919)
- The Secret of the Scaffold (1919)
- The Black Forest Girl (1920)
- The Haunting of Castle Kitay (1920)
- Colonel Chabert (1920)
- The Deerslayer and Chingachgook (1920)
- The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
- Circus People (1922)
- In the Ecstasy of Billions (1922)
- Time Is Money (1923)
- The Emperor's Old Clothes (1923)
- The Blame (1924)
- The Tragedy of the Dishonoured (1924)
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