Walter Schlee Explained

Walter Schlee
Occupation:	Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1925-1936 (film)

Walter Schlee, born 15 December 1894 in Kępno, Posen province, Germany; died 5 February 1964 in Lugano, Switzerland, was a German screenwriter. The Jewish Schlee left German following the Nazi Party's takeover of 1933. He then worked in the Netherlands along with other exiles such as Max Ophuls.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Blonde Nightingale (1930)
• Dangers of the Engagement Period (1930)
• Pension Schöller (1930)
• Twice Married (1930)
• The Unfaithful Eckehart (1931)
• Storm in a Water Glass (1931)
• Such a Greyhound (1931)
• Ash Wednesday (1931)
• The True Jacob (1931)
• The Stranger (1931)
• Wibbel the Tailor (1931)
• The Testament of Cornelius Gulden (1932)
• The Escape to Nice (1932)
• A Night in Paradise (1932)
• The Big Bluff (1933)
• The Sandwich Girl (1933)
• Tell Me Who You Are (1933)
• Marion, That's Not Nice (1933)
• Een Zomerzotheid (1935)
• Suikerfreule (1935)
• Het Mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate (1936)
• The Trouble With Money (1936)

Bibliography

• Ernest Mathijs. The Cinema of the Low Countries. Wallflower Press, 2004.

Notes and References

1. Mathijs p.65