Gustav Ucicky

Gustav Ucicky (born July 6, 1899, Vienna, Austria—died April 26, 1961, Hamburg, West Germany) was an Austrian film director known for historical and nationalistic German films done during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. Ucicky began his career as a cameraman with director Michael Curtiz. He moved to Germany in 1928 and became involved in the state-subsidized studio UFA. His early movies, such as Hocuspocus (1929) and Der unsterbliche Lump (1930; Immortal Vagabond), were light and...