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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-05-07

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Axel Corti

Biography

Axel Corti was born on May 7, 1933 in Paris, France. He was a director and actor, known for Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna (1986), Radetzkymarsch (1994) and The King's Whore (1990). He was married to Cecily Corti. He died on December 29, 1993 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria.

Known for

Grimme Award

Grimme Award

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Club 2

Club 2

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?

Three Paths to the Lake

Three Paths to the Lake

Elisabeth, a fifty year old woman, visits her old father in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. There, she reflects about her childhood and her romantic life.

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help? And above all should he help now, at a time when Nazis are becoming powerful in Austria?

Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich

Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich

Die singenden Engel von Tirol

Die singenden Engel von Tirol

Donauwalzer

Donauwalzer

The hungarian revolution 1956. Judith, an Austrian and her Hungarian friend, Taddek, want to escape to Austria. A friend of theirs, a Viennese photographer, helps organize their escape. Taddek doesn't appear at the arranged meeting place, so Judith and the photographer leave without him. Years pass without a word from Taddek..

Hugo und der liebe Gott

Hugo und der liebe Gott

After his first day at school 6 year old Hugo doesn't want to continue to go to this "institution". He appeals to God to become a grown up, who fulfills his wish and lets him experience life as an adult in the body of his father, a police physician. When Hugo falls under suspicion of having failed in his profession he again turns to God.

Die Jakobsleiter

Die Jakobsleiter