Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Michael Waltz
Michael George Glen Waltz( born January 31, 1974) is a U.S. Army officer and American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 6th congressional district.
He is a member of the Republican Party.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
Hanna Beata Gronkiewicz- Waltz( born 4 November 1952) is a Polish politician and lawyer, Professor of Jurisprudence and politician who served as the Mayor of Warsaw between 2006 and 2018.
She is the first woman to hold this position.
Franz Antel
Franz Antel (28 June 1913 – 11 August 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years.
After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale.
In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies (romantic, slapstick, and/or musical) and "K.u.k.
films" all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since.
In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst (Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World War I. Antel himself later commented on this period, "I always wanted to provide good entertainment for the people at the cinema.
After the screening, people should say: Well now, I am in a good mood, I will go out and have a glass of wine."
(German original:
"Ich wollte die Leute im Kino immer gut unterhalten.
Die Besucher sollten nach der Filmvorführung sagen:
So, jetzt bin ich gut aufgelegt, jetzt geh ich auf ein Viertel Wein.")
From the late 1960s, encouraged by the new opportunities in the film industry brought about by the sexual revolution, Antel gradually switched his main interest to soft porn and ribaldry.
It was in particular his series of "Frau Wirtinhostess") films, directed under the pseudonym François Legrand, with which he tried to win international recognition.
Titles included "The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan" (1967), "Sexy Susan Sins Again" (1968), "Wild, Willing & Sexy" (1969) and "Don't Tell Daddy" (aka "Naughty Nymphs" in the U.S.A.) (1972).
Antel would recount an anecdote about himself describing how, in order to live up to his reputation as a womanizer, he used to carry a pair of high heels in his luggage which he then would occasionally place in the corridor in front of his hotel room – especially when he was travelling alone.
Among the best known actors Antel had worked with from the 1940s to the 1970s were Hans Moser, Paul Hörbiger, Oskar Werner, Curd Jürgens, Tony Curtis, Herbert Fux, Heinrich Schweiger, Arthur Kennedy, Carroll Baker, Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Marisa Berenson, Britt Ekland, Andréa Ferréol.
1981 was a turning point in Antel's career when he adapted for the big screen a stage play by Ulrich Becher and Peter Preses.
Set from the days of the Anschluss of 1938 until after the end of the war, "Der Bockerer" is about a Viennese butcher named Karl Bockerer (Karl Merkatz) whose common sense rather than intellect tells him to oppose the Nazis and who dares to show resistance just because he is never fully aware of the possible fateful consequences of his actions.
While Bockerer and his wife survive the war unscathed, their son joins the SA but, after some internal intrigue, is sent to the front and killed.
The film was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival.
The film's strong anti-fascist message, the moving dialogue, and performances by the "crème de la crème" of Austrian actors and actresses
(Ida Krottendorf, Alfred Böhm, Heinz Marecek, Hans Holt, Dolores Schmidinger and many more) made "Der Bockerer" an unusually successful film and gave new impetus to Antel's career.
He made three sequels, which follow the lives of the Bockerers well into the 1960s, each depicting a crucial historical event in Austria or one of its neighbouring countries:
The Emperor Waltz
The Emperor Waltz is a 1948 American musical film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Bing Crosby and Joan Fontaine.
Written by Wilder and Charles Brackett, the film is about a brash American gramophone salesman in Austria at the turn of the twentieth century who tries to convince Emperor Franz Joseph to buy a gramophone so the product will gain favor with the Austrian people.
" The Emperor Waltz" was inspired by a real- life incident involving Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Filmed on location in Jasper National Park in Canada, the film premiered in London, Los Angeles, and New York in the spring of 1948, and was officially released in the United States July 2, 1948.
In 1949, the film received Academy Award nominations for Best Costume Design and Best Music, as well as a Writers Guild of America Award nomination for Best Written American Musical.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
The Emperor's Waltz (1933 film)
The Emperor's Waltz is a 1933 German musical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Mártha Eggerth, Paul Hörbiger and Carl Esmond.
The Emperor Waltz (1953 film)
The Emperor Waltz (German: Kaiserwalzer) is a 1953 Austrian historical drama film directed by Franz Antel and starring Maria Holst, Rudolf Prack and Winnie Markus.
The film's sets were designed by Heinz Ockermüller and Sepp Rothaur.
It is set during the era of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Hans Heinz Theyer
Hans Heinz Theyer (August 5, 1910 – October 18, 1961) was an Austrian cinematographer.
He worked on around forty films, including "The Emperor Waltz" (1953).
Emperor Taishō
The Emperor's personal name was.
According to Japanese custom, during the reign the Emperor is called" the Emperor".
After death, he is known by a posthumous name, which is the name of the era coinciding with his reign.
Having ruled during the Taishō period, he is known as the" Emperor Taishō".

Question: Where was the director of film The Emperor Waltz (1953 Film) born?
Answer: Vienna