Franz Antel

Franz Antel (June 28, 1913 – Août 11, 2007) ce qui a vétéran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World war II, he began writing and directing film on a large scale. Dans the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies (romantique, burlesque, and/or de la comédie musicale) et K. u. k. film, all of which, for Austrian and French TV stations alike, have been a staple of week-end après-midi de programmation ever since. In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst (Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World war I. From the late 1960s, encouraged by the new opportunities in the film industry brought about by the sexual revolution, Antel gradually switched his main interest to soft porn and ribaldry. It was in particular his series of Hôtesse ("hôtesse") film, réalisé sous le pseudonyme de François Legrand, with which he tried to win international recognition. Titles included The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan (1967), Sexy Susan Sins Again (1969), Gibier, Willing & Sexy (1969) and don't Tell Daddy (aka Naughty Nymphes in the U. S. A.) (1972). Among the actors Antel worked with were Hans Moser, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Werner, Curd Jürgens, Tony Curtis, Herbert Fux, Heinrich Schweiger, Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Marisa Berenson, Britt Ekland, Andréa Ferréol. En 1981, ce qui a turning point dans Antel s career when he adapted for the big screen a stage play by Ulrich Tasse and Peter Preses. Set from the days of the Port of 1938 until after the end of the war, La Bockerer is about a Viennese butcher nommé Karl Bockerer (Karl Merkatz) whose common sense rather than intellect tell him to oppose the Nazis and who dares to show resistance just because he is never fully aware of the possible fateful consequences of his actions. While Bockerer and his wife survive the war indemnes, their son jointures the SA but, after some internal intrigue, is sent to the front and killed. La Bockerer IV The film strong anti-fascism message, the moving dialogue, and performances by the crème de la crème of Austrian actors and actresses (Ida Krottendorf, Alfred Böhm, Heinz Marecek, Hans Holt, Dolores Schmidinger and many more) made de La Bockerer à unusually successful film and gave new impetus to Antel s career. He made three "sequels", which follow the lives of the Bockerers well into the 1960s, each depicting a crucial historical event in Austria or one of its neighbouring countries: La Bockerer II (1996) is about the ten-year occupation (1945-1955) of Austria by the allied powers; La Bockerer III — Le Pont de Andau (2000) is set at the time of the Hungarian Révolution de 1956; and, finally, La Bockerer IV — Le Printemps de Prague (2003) deals with Dubček s Prague Spring of 1968. Antel would recount anecdote à propos de lui-même describing faire, in order to live up to his reputation as a womanizer, he used to carry a pair of high heels in his luggage which he would then occasionally place in the corridor in front of his room – especially when he was travelling alone.