Jacob Fleck was an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n film director

Film director

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, film producer

Film producer

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 and cameraman.

Biography

In 1910, together with Anton Kolm

Anton Kolm

Anton Kolm was an Austrian photographer who became one of the first film directors and film producers in the history of Austrian cinema....

, Kolm's wife Luise (who later married Fleck), and her brother Claudius Veltée, Jacob Fleck established the film production company Erste Österreichische Kinofilms-Industrie in Wien-Alsergrund

Alsergrund

Alsergrund is the ninth district of Vienna, Austria . It is located just north of the first, central district, Innere Stadt. Alsergrund was incorporated in 1862, with seven suburbs. The area is densely populated, with a lot of government-built housing. According to the census of 2001, there were...

. The company changed its name only a year later to Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie, in which Fleck worked partly as a cameraman, but principally as a producer and director together with Luise Kolm in making numerous films.

Anton Kolm died in 1922. In 1923 Fleck moved with Luise Kolm to Berlin

Berlin

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, where they married in 1924: Luise was known from then on as Luise Fleck

Luise Fleck

Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée , was an Austrian film director, and the second ever female film director in the world, after Alice Guy-Blaché...

. Both of them worked for Hegewald-Film and UFA

Universum Film AG

Universum Film AG, better known as UFA or Ufa, is a film company that was the principal film studio in Germany, home of the German film industry during the Weimar Republic and through World War II, and a major force in world cinema from 1917 to 1945...

. In the 1920s they were known as the "director-couple" (Regieehepaar). In this period they produced between 30 and 40 films, but in 1933, after Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 took power, they returned to Austria, as Jacob Fleck was Jewish.

In 1938, as an effect of the Anschluss

Anschluss

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 (the annexation of Austria to Germany), Jews were categorically excluded from the film industry. Fleck was obliged to earn his living as a photographer's re-toucher. In 1938 he was interned, at first in the concentration camp Buchenwald and then in Dachau, for a period of 16 months. In 1939/40 both the Flecks emigrated to Shanghai

Shanghai

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. The Chinese

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 director Fei Mu

Fei Mu

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 filmed with them as a co-production the film Söhne und Töchter der Welt ("Sons and Daughters of the World"). It was the only collaboration between Chinese and foreign film artists prior to the foundation of the People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

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, and premiered on 4 October 1941 in the Yindu Theatre in Shanghai.

In 1947, the year of the opening of Austria's first post-war film studio - Belvedere Film, established by Emmerich Hanus and Elfi von Dassanowsky

Elfi von Dassanowsky

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 - the Flecks returned to Austria, in order to plan their comeback, which however never took off. Jacob Fleck died in 1953, three years after his wife.

As director

• 1910 - Die Ahnfrau (directorial debut)
• 1911 - Hoffmanns Erzählungen
• 1911 - Die Glückspuppe
  Die Glückspuppe
  Die Glückspuppe is a short 1911 Austrian film directed by Jakob and Luise Fleck.-Cast:*Mizzi Bittner ... Blumenverkäuferin Mizzi* Werzel ... Elly, ihr Kind*Max Bing ... Robert Sassen*Ernst Lunzer...
  
  
• 1912 - Trilby
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• 1912 - Zweierlei Blut
• 1914 - Svengali
• 1914 - Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld
• 1915 - Der Traum des österreichischen Reservisten
• 1915 - Mit Herz und Hand fürs Vaterland
• 1915 - Der Meineidbauer
• 1916 - Mit Gott für Kaiser und Reich
• 1917 - Mir kommt keiner aus
• 1917 - Der Verschwender
• 1917 - Im Banne der Pflicht
• 1917 - Der Schandfleck
• 1918 - Der Doppelselbstmord
• 1918 - Der König amüsiert sich
• 1918 - Die Geisel der Menschheit
• 1918 - Die Jüdin
• 1919 - Lumpazivagabundus
• 1919 - Die Ahnfrau (for the second time; at more than 60 minutes, significantly longer than the first version)
• 1919 - Die Zauberin am Stein
• 1920 - Verschneit
• 1920 - Der Leiermann
• 1920 - Großstadtgift
• 1920 - Eva, die Sünde
• 1924 - Frühlingserwachen
• 1926 - Der Meineidbauer
• 1927 - Liebelei
• 1928 - Frauenarzt, Dr. Schäfer
• 1929 - Mädchen am Kreuz
• 1930 - Die Warschauer Zitadelle
• 1931 - Wenn die Soldaten...
• 1932 - Ein Auto und kein Geld
• 1933 - Unser Kaiser
• 1935 - Csardas
• 1937 - Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld
• 1941 - Söhne und Töchter der Welt

As producer

• 1911 - Der Müller und sein Kind
  Der Müller und sein Kind
  Der Müller und sein Kind, a silent film made in 1911, is the oldest Austrian drama film to survive in its entirety. It was produced by the Österreichisch-Ungarische Kinoindustrie, which later in 1911 changed its name to become the Wiener Kunstfilm-Industrie...
  
  
• 1919 - Die Zauberin am Stein
• 1920 - Winterstürme
• 1941 - Söhne und Töchter der Welt (co-producer with Luise Fleck)

As screenwriter

• 1912 - Zweierlei Blut
• 1917 - Mir kommt keiner aus
• 1918 - Die Geisel der Menschheit
• 1920 - Eva, die Sünde
• 1924 - Frühlingserwachen
• 1941 - Söhne und Töchter der Welt

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