Wolfgang Glück

Austrian film director and screenwriter (1929–2023)

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)
Das Gebell [de] (1976, TV film) — (based on a short story by Ingeborg Bachmann)
Diener und andere Herren [de] (1978, TV film) — (based on short stories by O. Henry, P. G. Wodehouse and W. Somerset Maugham)
Der Schüler Gerber [de] (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

^ "The 59th Academy Awards (1987) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^ "Starregisseur Wolfgang Glück ist tot". ORF.at. 17 December 2023. Retrieved 18 December 2023.