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Also Known As George Wilhelm Pabst
Born August 27, 1885 • Czechoslovakia
Died May 29, 1967 (aged 81) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works “Comradeship” • “Diary of a Lost Girl” • “Secrets of a Soul” • “The Joyless Street” • “The Love of Jeanne Ney” • “The Threepenny Opera” • “The Treasure” • “Westfront 1918”
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