Max Obal Explained

Max Obal
Birth Date:	4 September 1881
Birth Place:	Brieg, Silesia German Empire
Death Place:	Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany
Birth Name:	Max David Gotthelf Sroke
Occupation:	Director, screenwriter, actor. singer
Yearsactive:	1911-1938 (film)

Max Obal (born Max David Gotthelf Sroke; 4 September 1881 – 18 May 1949) was a German actor, singer, screenwriter, and film director. He co-directed the 1927 swashbuckler Rinaldo Rinaldini featuring Hans Albers.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Traitress (1911)
• Camera Obscura (1921)
• The Homecoming of Odysseus (1922)
• The Ravine of Death (1923)
• The Shot in the Pavilion (1925)
• The Woman from the Folies Bergères (1927)
• Rinaldo Rinaldini (co-director: Rudolf Dworsky, 1927)
• A Modern Casanova (1928)
• The Insurmountable (1928)
• The Criminal of the Century (1928)
• Tempo! Tempo! (1929)
• Queen of Fashion (1929)
• Peace of Mind (1931)
• Two Good Comrades (1933)
• Annette in Paradise (1934)
• The Monastery's Hunter (1935)

Bibliography

• Grange, William. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Notes and References

1. Grange p.251