Ludwig Berger (director)
Introduction '''Ludwig Berger''' (born '''Ludwig Bamberger'''; 6 January 1892 – 18 May 1969) was a German-Jewish film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than 30 films between 1920 and 1969.Berger began working in the German film industry during the Weimar Republic. At Decla-Bioscop and later UFA he established a reputation as a leading director of silent films. He emigrated to Hollywood, but was unable to establish himself and returned to Europe. He subsequently worked both in France and Germany. He was a member of the jury at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.Berger also translated a few plays of Shakespeare, including ''Cymbeline'', ''Hamlet'', and ''Timon of Athens''. His elder brother was the set designer Rudolf Bamberger who was killed in 1945.
Selected filmography ===Film===* ''The Mayor of Zalamea'' (1920)* ''The Story of Christine von Herre'' (1921)* ''A Glass of Water'' (1923)* ''The Lost Shoe'' (1923)* ''A Waltz Dream'' (1925)* ''The Master of Nuremberg'' (1927)* ''Queen Louise'' (dir. Karl Grune, 1927)* ''Sins of the Fathers'' (1928)* ''The Woman from Moscow'' (1928)* ''The Burning Heart'' (1929)* ''The Vagabond King'' (1930)* ''Playboy of Paris'' (1930)* ''The Little Cafe'' (1931)* ''I by Day, You by Night'' (1932)* ''Early to Bed'' (1933)* ''Waltz War'' (1933)* ''Court Waltzes'' (1933)* ''Pygmalion'' (1937)* ''Three Waltzes'' (1938)* ''Ergens in Nederland'' (1940)* ''The Thief of Bagdad'' (1940)* ''The Immortal Face'' (1947)* ''Ballerina'' (1950)* ''Stresemann'' (dir. Alfred Braun, 1957)===Television===*1954: ''Die Spieler'' — based on ''The Gamblers'' by Nikolai Gogol*1954: ''Der Schauspieldirektor'' — based on ''Der Schauspieldirektor'' by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart*1955: ''Frau Mozart''*1955: ''Undine'' — based on ''Ondine'' by Jean Giraudoux*1957: ''Der Tod des Sokrates'' — based on ''Phaedo'' by Plato*1958: ''Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung'' — based on ''The Taming of the Shrew''*1958: ''Was ihr wollt'' — based on ''Twelfth Night''*1958: ''Viel Lärm um nichts'' — based on ''Much Ado About Nothing''*1958: ''Wie es euch gefällt'' — based on ''As You Like It''*1958: ''Maß für Maß'' — based on ''Measure for Measure''*1958: ''Ein Sommernachtstraum'' — based on ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''*1959: ''Das Paradies und die Peri'' — based on ''Paradise and the Peri'' and ''Lalla-Rookh''*1960: ''Die Nacht in Zaandam''*1961: ''Hermann und Dorothea'' — based on ''Hermann and Dorothea'' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe*1962: ''Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind'' — based on a play by Ferdinand Raimund*1964: ''Ottiliens Tollheiten''*1967: ''Samen von Kraut und Unkraut – Drei Szenen aus der Geschichte Hessens''*1968: ''Odysseus auf Ogygia'' — based on a play by Fritz von Unruh*1969: ''Demetrius'' (co-director: Heribert Wenk) — based on ''Demetrius'' by Friedrich Schiller
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