Georg Tressler
Directing
January 25, 1917
Died January 6, 2007 (89 years old)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
4
Acting Credits
39
Directed
Biography
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-st...
