Georg Wilhelm Pabst (Pabst)

Pabst, Georg Wilhelm (Pabst), (1885-1967), German film director. Born August 27, 1885 in Raudnitse. Creative activity began in 1905 in dramatic works. Since 1922 - in film, since 1923 director. At Pabst film "Secrets of a Soul" (1926), "Pandora's Box" (1928) had an infatuation with the theory of psychoanalysis. He was a member of the Union of German Cinema (founded in 1928). By the films "The Western Front, 1918" (1930), "The Threepenny Opera" (for B. Brecht), "Solidarity".

After the Nazis came to power he emigrated from Germany, worked in France and the U.S.. In 1939 he moved to Austria, where he staged films: "The Comedians" (1941), "Paracelsus" (1943), "Process" (1948), "House of Silence" (1950) and others. He died in Vienna on May 30, 1967.