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Hanns Eisler

Composer / Screenwriter / Musician | * 07/06/1898 († 64, 09/06/1962) | Leipzig (Germany)
Hanns Eisler (6 July 1898 – 6 September 1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin is named after him. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Gasparone

Certification unknown

1955 | 1h 36min
Adventure, Comedy, Music
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When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet. ...

None But the Lonely Heart

Certification unknown

1944 | 3.1/5 | 1h 53min
Drama, Romance / Love
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During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the proc ...

Hangmen Also Die!

FSK: 16+ years

1943 | 3.5/5 | 2h 14min
Drama, Thriller, War
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Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid ...

The Great Game

Certification unknown

1934 | 3.6/5 | 1h 50min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Hanns Eisler

National Prize of the German Democratic Republic 2x Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic or Comedy Score
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Movies with Hanns Eisler as Actor(1)

as Self (archive footage)2003 Chaplin Today: 'Monsieur Verdoux'

Movies with Hanns Eisler as Crew(38)

Sound/Music2014 Communists
Sound/Music1992 La vie de Galilée
Sound/Music1982 Walter Ballhause - Einer von Millionen
Sound/Music1978 Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
Sound/Music1978 Låt er inte förföras
Sound/Original Music Composer1975 Galileo
Sound/Original Music Composer1960 Les arrivistes
Sound/Music1958 Geschwader Fledermaus
Sound/Original Music Composer1957 The Witches of Salem
Sound/Original Music Composer1956 Night and Fog
Sound/Music1956 Fidelio
Writing/Screenplay1955 Gasparone
Sound/Music1955 Bel Ami
Sound/Music1954 Schicksal am Lenkrad
Sound/Music1952 Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
Sound/Music1952 Destinies of Women
Sound/Music1950 Council of the Gods
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Křížová trojka
Sound/Original Music Composer1949 Our Daily Bread
Sound/Music1947 So Well Remembered
Sound/Music1947 Leben des Galilei
Sound/Music1947 The Woman on the Beach
Sound/Original Music Composer1947 The Woman on the Beach
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 A Scandal in Paris
Sound/Original Music Composer1946 Deadline at Dawn
Sound/Original Music Composer1945 Jealousy
Sound/Music1945 The Spanish Main
Sound/Music1944 None But the Lonely Heart
Sound/Music1943 Hangmen Also Die!
Sound/Music1939 Pete-Roleum and His Cousins
Sound/Music1939 The 400 Million
Sound/Original Music Composer1935 Abdul the Damned
Sound/Original Music Composer1933 New Earth
Sound/Music1933 Song of the Streets
Sound/Original Music Composer1932 To Whom Does the World Belong?
Sound/Music1932 Song of Heroes
Sound/Original Music Composer1931 Hell on Earth
Sound/Music1924 Opus III

Full Name: Hanns Eisler
Born: Wednesday, 07/06 1898 (July) in Leipzig (Germany)
Died: Thursday, 09/06 1962 (September) in East Berlin (aged: 64)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: German (DE, native language), English (EN)
Educated at: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Employer: Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin
Member of: Academy of Arts of the GDR, Second Viennese School
Children: Georg Eisler
Siblings: Gerhart Eisler, Ruth Fischer
Father: Rudolf Eisler
Student of: Arnold Schoenberg
Other names for Hanns Eisler (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Hans Eisler"
Hanns Eisler frequently works together with these people:
Bertolt Brecht (8x, Crew)
Joris Ivens (8x, Crew)
Joseph Losey (6x, Crew)
Slatan Dudow (5x, Crew)
C. Bakaleinikoff (5x, Crew)
Arnold Pressburger (4x, Crew)
Victor Trivas (4x, Crew)
Leo Metzenbauer (4x, Crew)
Albert S. D'Agostino (4x, Crew)
Darrell Silvera (4x, Crew)
Walter Ruttmann (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:123324, Added: 06/28/2018, Last updated: 03/30/2024