Emil Burri

{{Short description|German playwright and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Emil Burri | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 11 December 1902 | birth_place = Munich, German Empire | death_date = 29 August 1966 | death_place = Munich, West Germany | other_names = | occupation = Writer | years_active = 1933–1964 (film) }} '''Emil Burri''' (1902–1966) was a German playwright and screenwriter who worked on around fifty films during his career, a prominent figure in both Nazi era and post-war German cinema. He also directed the 1942 film ''Beloved World'', his only directorial credit. In 1955 he wrote the screenplay for the Austrian historical heimatfilm ''Dunja''.<ref>Fritsche p.255</ref>

In the theatre he was known as a collaborator with Bertolt Brecht.

==Selected filmography== ===Screenwriter=== * ''Inge and the Millions'' (1933) * ''The Island'' (1934) * ''The Green Domino'' (1935) *''The Green Domino'' (1935) * ''The Royal Waltz'' (1935) * ''Königswalzer'' (1935) * ''Boccaccio'' (1936) * ''A Wedding Dream'' (1936) * ''Diamonds'' (1937) * ''Faded Melody'' (1938) * ''The Governor'' (1939) * ''A Woman Like You'' (1939) * ''Water for Canitoga'' (1939) * ''Enemies'' (1940) * ''Comrades'' (1941) * ''What Does Brigitte Want?'' (1941) * ''Tonelli'' (1943) * ''Orient Express'' (1944) * ''The Blue Straw Hat'' (1949) * ''Chased by the Devil'' (1950) * ''Royal Children'' (1950) * ''Diary of a Married Woman'' (1953) * ''Walking Back into the Past'' (1954) * ''The Witch'' (1954) * ''Dunja'' (1955) * ''The Royal Waltz'' (1955) * ''Escape from Sahara'' (1958) * ''Stefanie'' (1958) * ''Marili'' (1959)

===Director=== * ''Beloved World'' (1942)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Fritsche, Maria. ''Homemade Men In Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity ''. Berghahn Books, 2013.

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0123110}}

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