Wolfgang Glück Explained

Wolfgang Glück (29 September 1929 – 13 December 2023) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His film '38 – Vienna Before the Fall (1987) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 59th Academy Awards.^[1] Glück died on 13 December 2023, at the age of 94.^[2]

Selected filmography

As director

• Endangered Girls (1958)
• Girls for the Mambo-Bar (1959)
• Traumnovelle (1969, TV film) — (based on Dream Story)
• Doppelspiel in Paris (1972, TV film)
• Agent aus der Retorte (1972, TV film)
• The Count of Luxemburg (1972) — (based on Der Graf von Luxemburg)
• Wunschloses Unglück (1974, TV film) — (based on A Sorrow Beyond Dreams)
• (1976, TV film) — (based on a short story by Ingeborg Bachmann)
• (1978, TV film) — (based on short stories by O. Henry, P. G. Wodehouse and W. Somerset Maugham)
• (1981) — (based on a novel by Friedrich Torberg)
• Tatort: Mord in der Oper (1981, TV series episode)
• Brigitta (1982, TV film) — (based on a novella by Adalbert Stifter)
• '38 – Vienna Before the Fall (1987) — (based on a novel by Friedrich Torberg)

As actor

• Adventure in Vienna (1952)
• Red Sun (1970), as Mercedes driver
• Funny Games (1997), as Robert

Notes and References

1. Web site: The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners . 5 October 2014 . oscars.org.
2. News: Starregisseur Wolfgang Glück ist tot . 18 December 2023 . ORF.at . 17 December 2023.