Carl Mayer

Personal information

Known for: Сценарий
Known credits: 34
Gender: Мужской
Born: 20 ноября 1894 г.
Died: 1 июля 1944 г.
Place of birth: Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Biography

Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Head of Janus (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German Expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm.

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