!!!Ucicky, Gustav

b. Vienna, July 6, 1899, 
d. Hamburg (Germany), April 27, 1961, cameraman, film director, 
son of G.  Klimt. 1916 in  Sascha-Film of Count A. J.  
Kolowrat-Krakowsky, began with news reel reports; 1919 cameraman in 
films by M. Kertesz ("Die Sklavenkoenigin", 1924; "Das Spielzeug von 
Paris", 1925). 1927 debut as director: "Tingel-Tangel", "Cafe 
Elektric" (both 1928); some films with German nationalist undertones 
("Das Floetenkonzert von Sanssouci", 1930; "York", 1931) in Germany as 
well as the propaganda film "Heimkehr" (1941). After the war mainly 
innocuous films: "Cordula", 1950; "Der Jaeger vom Fall", 1956.

!Literature
G. Trimmel, Heimkehr. Strategien eines 
nationalsozialistischen Films, 1998.



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