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Luis Trenker
An important and talented director, actor and screenwriter, Luis Trenker is a sadly neglected figure in film history. An Austro-Italian, Trenker began in German "mountain films" in the 1920s and was a popular lead by the end of the decade. He directed some splendid films in the 30s, but the general neglect or misunderstanding of the films he made during the pre-Nazi and Nazi eras consigned his career to obscurity. And yet, to quote film historian William K. Everson: "The mountain film was to Germany what the Western was to America, and Trenker, as its leading practitioner, was in a sense Germany's John Wayne and John Ford rolled into one."
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sein bester Freund |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1962 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Challenge |
Jean Antoine Carrel (Character), Director |
- | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Condottieri |
Unknown (Character), Director |
- | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Der Kaiser von Kalifornien |
Johann August Sutter (Character), Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Prodigal Son |
Tonio Feuersinger (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rebel |
Severin Anderlan (Character), Director |
- | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mountains on Fire |
Florian Dimai (Character), Director |
- | 1931 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Holy Mountain | Karl (Character) | - | 1926 |