Director: Richard Oswald

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Birthday: 1880-11-05
Born in: Vienna, Austria
Biography: Richard Oswald was an Austrian director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 100 feature films from 1914 to 1951. Among them the classics "Nachtgestalten" (1920), "Unheimliche Geschichten" (1919/1932), "Die Prostitution 1-2" (1919) and "Alraune" (1930). Being Jewish, Oswald was forced to flee Nazi Germany, first for occupied France and later emigrating to the United States.

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Different from the Others

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of ยง175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
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1919

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

1929

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Eerie Tales

After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.
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Eerie Tales

1919

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