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George Hurdalek (6 February 1908 – 15 June 1980) was a German screenwriter. He wrote for more than 40 films between 1934 and 1975. He was born in Görlitz , Germany, and died in Munich , Germany.
Georg Hurdalek was born on 6 February 1908 in Görlitz, Germany. He was a writer and assistant director, known for The Sound of Music (1965), Roses for the Prosecutor (1959) and Der große Zapfenstreich (1952).
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The Sergeant's Daughter (German: Der große Zapfenstreich) is a 1952 West German war romance film directed by George Hurdalek and starring Johanna Matz, Jan Hendriks and Friedrich Domin. It was based on a 1903 novel by Franz Adam Beyerlein which portrayed life in the army of William II.
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At a Nonnberg Abbey in Austria in the 1930s, a spirited novice named Maria (Ruth Leuwerik) is sent by her abbess to the estate of a widowed Austro-Hungarian Navy war hero, Baron von Trapp (Hans Holt), to look after his seven unruly children. The baron is a stern disciplinarian and runs his household like a World War I U-boat. When Maria arrives, sh...
The film is based on Maria von Trapp's memoir, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, written in 1948 to help promote her family's singing group following the death of her husband, Captain von Trapp, in 1947. Hollywood producers expressed immediate interest in purchasing the title only, but Maria refused, wanting her entire story to be told. In 195...
The Trapp Family was released in West Germany on October 9, 1956, by Gloria Film and became a major success. Two years later, Liebeneiner directed a sequel, The Trapp Family in America, and the two films soon became the most successful films in West Germany during the post-war years.Their success extended throughout Europe and South America.
In his review of the 1961 United States version for The New York Times, Howard Thompson gave the film a positive review, calling it "genteel, tuneful and frankly sentimental". According to Thompson, the film "steers an undramatic, but disarming, course", with "friendly" acting and "pretty" cinematography.The central attraction for Thompson, however...
In 1956, Paramount Pictures purchased the United States film rights, intending to produce an English-language version with Audrey Hepburn as Maria. The studio eventually dropped its option, but one of its directors, Vincent Donehue, proposed the story as a stage musical for Mary Martin. Producers Richard Halliday and Leland Heyward secured the righ...
Citations Sources 1. Hirsch, Julia Antopol (1993). The Sound of Music: The Making of America's Favorite Movie. Chicago: Contemporary Books. ISBN 978-0-809-23837-8.
Gearin, Joan (Winter 2005). "Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family". Prologue. 37(4).
The Trapp Family at IMDbThe Trapp Family at the TCM Movie DatabaseGeorg Hurdalek (* 6. Februar 1908 in Görlitz; † 15. Juli 1980 in München) war ein deutscher Drehbuchautor und Filmregisseur
George Hurdalek is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Actor, Director, Idea, and Novel. Some of his work includes The Devil's General, The Indian Scarf, Roses for the Prosecutor, Town Without Pity, Ludwig II, Fluchtweg St. Pauli - Großalarm für die Davidswache, Dreizehn Mann und eine Kanone, and Der Schinderhannes.
Observant ones amongst you will have noticed George Hurdalek's name writ large in gold letters in the credits at the beginning of TSOM. I have always wondered who he was, and what was his contr
