Georg Tressler

Georg Tressler born January 25 1917 in Vienna died January 6 2007 in Belgern Germany was an Austrian film director known for bringing social realism to postwar German cinema After early work as an assistant and documentary filmmaker he achieved major success with Die Halbstarken 1956 which helped launch the career of Horst Buchholz and marked a break from conventional 1950s German filmmaking Influenced by Italian Neorealism Tressler favored location shooting and a documentarystyle approach evident in films such as Endstation Liebe and Das Totenschiff From the 1960s onward he worked extensively in television directing popular series and TV films His work is regarded as an important bridge between postwar cinema and later New German Film movements