Richard Oswald was an Austrian director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 100 feature films from 1914 to 1951. Among them the classics "Nachtgestalten" (1920), "Unheimliche Geschichten" (1919/1932), "Die Prostitution 1-2" (1919) and "Alraune" (1930). Being Jewish, Oswald was forced to flee Nazi Germany, first for occupied France and later emigrating to the United States.
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Richard Oswald was a prolific Austrian film director, producer, and screenwriter who shaped Weimar era cinema before fleeing Nazi Germany.
He is known for directing pioneering early films like the landmark 1919 drama Different from the Others and various historical adaptations.
He directed silent and early sound feature films spanning social-issue dramas, horror, comedies, and historical epics.
