Director
Georg Tressler
Born 1917 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Georg Tressler (born January 25, 1917, in Vienna – died January 6, 2007, in Belgern, Germany) was an Austrian film director known for bringing social realism to postwar German cinema. After early work as an assistant and documentary filmmaker, he achieved major success with Die Halbstarken (1956), which helped launch the career of Horst Buchholz and marked a break from conventional 1950s German filmmaking. Influenced by Italian Neorealism, Tressler favored location shooting and a documentary-style approach, evident in films such as Endstation Liebe and Das Totenschiff. From the 1960s onward, he worked extensively in television, directing popular series and TV films. His work is regarded as an important bridge between postwar cinema and later New German Film movements.
Directed
Scene of the Crime
Director · 1970
Ship of the Dead
Director · 1959
Gestatten, mein Name ist Cox
Director · 1961
Die Hütte am See
Director · 1992
Inspektion Lauenstadt
Director · 1976
Unter Achtzehn
Director · 1957
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Director · 1965
Children of the Mountains
Director · 1958
Das Kriminalgericht
Director · 1963
Ein Mann, der nichts gewinnt
Director · 1967
Hansl und die 200 000 Kücken
Director · 1952
Der Millionenbauer
Director · 1979
Castle Hohenstein
Director · 1992
Lautlose Jagd
Director · 1966
Reisedienst Schwalbe
Director · 1969
Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland
Director · 1968
Traudls neuer Gemüsegarten
Director · 1952
The Magnificent Rebel
Director · 1961
