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Luis Trenker is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Italien born on 4 october 1892 at Urtijëi (Italie)

Luis Trenker

Luis Trenker
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Birth name Alois Franz Trenker
Nationality Italie
Birth 4 october 1892 at Urtijëi (Italie)
Death 12 april 1990 (at 97 years) at Bolzano (Italie)
Awards Bavarian Order of Merit, Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Luis Trenker (born Alois Franz Trenker, 4 October 1892 – 13 April 1990) was a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, and alpinist.

Biography

Early life
Alois Franz Trenker was born on 4 October 1892 in Urtijëi, Tyrol (German: St. Ulrich in Gröden, Italian: Ortisei) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (in present-day northern Italy). His father Jacob Trenker was a painter from North Tyrol, and his mother Karolina (née Demetz) was from Urtijëi in Val Gardena. He grew up speaking two languages: German, the language of his father, and Ladin, the language of his mother. He attended the local primary school from 1898 to 1901, and then attended the Josefinum in Bolzano in 1902 and 1903. From 1903 to 1905, he attended the arts and crafts school in Bolzano, where he developed his skills as a woodcarver.

In 1912, he entered the Realschule in Innsbruck, where he studied Italian as a foreign language. There he began his middle school studies. During his high school years, he spent his holidays working for mountain guides and ski instructors. After his matriculation examinations in 1912, Trenker studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna.


World War I
At the start of World War I, Trenker fought as a cadet in an Austro-Hungarian heavy artillery unit on the Eastern Front in Galicia and Russisch-Polen. From 1915 to 1918, he fought in the mountain war against Italy in the border fortress of Nauders. Later he fought in Trento. From 1916 he served as a mountain guide in the Dolomites. At the end of the war he had achieved the rank of Lieutenant. He would write 23 books based on his war experiences, the most important of which were Fort Rocca Alta and Berge in Flammen, the latter of which was made into the 1931 film Mountains on Fire.

At the end of the war, Trenker made several unsuccessful attempts to start an architecture business in Bolzano. In 1924, he enrolled at the Technical University of Graz, and then worked as an architect in Bolzano, forming a business partnership with the Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister. In 1924, Trenker participated in the Winter Olympic Games in Chamonix as a member of the Italian five-man bobsled team. Under the leadership of Pilot Lodovico Obexer, they ended up in sixth place.


Film career
Trenker's first contact with film came in 1921, when he helped director Arnold Fanck on one of his mountain films. The main actor could not perform the stunts required, and so Trenker assumed the leading role. He gradually assumed more roles on the set, and by 1928 was directing, writing, and starring in his own films. By now he had abandoned his job as an architect to concentrate on his films.

In 1928 he married Hilda von Bleichert, the daughter of a fabrics manufacturer from Leipzig, and together they had four children. In 1932 Trenker created (with Curtis Bernhardt and Edwin H. Knopf) an historical film The Rebel. Trenker stated that the film's plotline of a Tyrolean mountaineer Severin Anderlan leading a revolt against occupying French forces in 1809, during the Napoleonic Wars. The greatest Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer was a proto-type of "Severin Anderlan" ... Trenker was designed to mirror what was happening in contemporary Germany as it rejected the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

The main theme of Trenker's work was the idealization of peoples connection with their homeland and pointing out the decadence of city life (most clearly visible in his 1934 film Der verlorene Sohn (The Prodigal Son). This loosely played into the hands of Nazi propagandists, who seized upon the nationalistic elements of his work. However, Trenker refused to allow his work to be subverted as such and eventually moved to Rome in 1940 to avoid further governmental pressure. After a pair of documentary films, however, Trenker returned to Bolzano and stopped making films. The style he had developed in the thirties was not limited to nationalistic, folkloristic, and heroic clichés. His impersonation of a hungry, downtrodden immigrant in depression era New York was regarded as one of the seminal scenes for future Italian neorealism by the likes of Roberto Rossellini.


World War II
Trenker was accused of fascist opportunism after the war, but the charges were eventually dropped. In the 1950s, he returned to the movie industry, though by 1965 he was making primarily documentary films that focused on the Austrian province of Tyrol and South Tyrol (his homeland), which had become part of Italy. He also returned to writing about the mountains.


Later life
In 1988 Hilda Trenker von Bleichert died. Luis Trenker died on 13 April 1990 in Bolzano at the age 97. He was buried in his family's plot at Urtijëi. In 1992, for the centennial of his birth, his native town of Ortisei dedicated a monument that shows him in mountaineer dresses while looking at the Langkofel, a mountain he liked to climb. In March 2004, the Museum Gherdëina displayed a collection of Trenker's belongings from a bequest of his family.

Usually with

Sepp Allgeier
Sepp Allgeier
(5 films)
Arnold Fanck
Arnold Fanck
(4 films)
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
(1 films)
Walter Franck
Walter Franck
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Luis Trenker (19 films)

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Actor

The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl, 3h8
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Luis Trenker
Roles Himself
Rating79% 3.992383.992383.992383.992383.99238
La vie et l'œuvre de Leni Riefenstahl, qui au contraire de ses homologues qui, tel Fritz Lang, quittèrent l'Allemagne nazie, refusa de partir et devint la cinéaste attitrée du national-socialisme.
The Stars Shine, 1h43
Directed by Hans H. Zerlett
Origin German
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ernst Fritz Fürbringer, La Jana, Carla Rust, Karel Štěpánek, Paul Verhoeven (réalisateur allemand), Arthur Schröder
Roles Gast
Rating62% 3.130313.130313.130313.130313.13031
A young secretary leaves the country and travels to Berlin to seek work as an actress. In a comedy of errors, she is mistaken for a famous dancer, which results in her heading the cast of a star-studded musical. The plot acts as a backdrop for this musical revue film, which includes many German film, sports, and entertainment stars of the 1930s.
The Mountain Calls, 1h35
Directed by Luis Trenker
Origin German
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Sports films, Alpinisme
Actors Luis Trenker, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Lucie Höflich, Blandine Ebinger, Umberto Sacripante, Ernst Legal
Roles Jean-Antoine Carrel
Rating67% 3.3828153.3828153.3828153.3828153.382815
The Italian mountaineer Jean-Antoine Carrel wants to be the first man to reach the summit of the Matterhorn. He meets the British mountaineer Whymper and they decide to climb together. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two men try it on the same day with two different teams, Carrel on the Italian side and Whymper on the Swiss side. The latter will successfully reach the summit along with his six companions, Hudson, Hadow, Douglas and the guides Croz and Taugwalder father and son. Only Whymper and the guides Taugwalder will survive the descent.
The Emperor of California, 1h37
Directed by Luis Trenker
Origin German
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Luis Trenker, Bernhard Theodor Henry Minetti, Marcella Albani, Paul Verhoeven (réalisateur allemand), Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Zesch-Ballot
Roles Johann August Suter
Rating64% 3.235333.235333.235333.235333.23533
Le film raconte l'histoire de la vie de John Sutter, le propriétaire de Sutter's Mill, le célèbre endroit où l'on découvrit l'or qui provoqua la ruée vers l'or en Californie.
The Prodigal Son, 1h42
Directed by Luis Trenker, Werner Klingler
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about immigration
Actors Luis Trenker, Maria Andergast, Marian Marsh, Paul Henckels, F. W. Schröder-Schrom, Eduard Köck
Roles Tonio Feuersinger
Rating67% 3.3743953.3743953.3743953.3743953.374395
Tonio Feuersinger, le fils téméraire d'une vieille famille de paysans, a une vie routinière dans le Tyrol du Sud. Lors de la cérémonie après une course de ski, qu'il a gagnée avec deux camarades de son village, il rencontre un millionnaire américain, qui lui donne le trophée, et sa fille Lilian. Le père voit le masque du Roi des Douze jours et souhaite l'acheter. Mais comme il n'est pas à vendre, il en commande une copie. Lilian engage Tonio et son ami Jörg à une ascension du sommet. Au cours de l'ascension d'une crête abrupte, la neige tombe soudainement. Tonio se met à l'abri, Lilian et Jörg d'un autre. Tonio et Lilian s'en sortent, mais Jörg meurt. En raison de cet accident, Lilian et son père s'en vont. Tonio veut maintenant connaître le "grand monde" incarné par Lilian, loin de l'étroitesse supposée de l'isolement de la montagne. Il se moque des habitants et quitte le village et son amie Barbl.
The Rebel
The Rebel (1932)
, 1h22
Directed by Luis Trenker, Curtis Bernhardt, Reinhart Steinbicker
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Luis Trenker, Luise Ullrich, Victor Varconi, Ludwig Stössel, Olga Engl, Fritz Kampers
Roles Severin Anderlan
Rating64% 3.222793.222793.222793.222793.22279
1809, alors que le Tyrol est occupé par la Bavière. Quand Severin Anderlan retourne après avoir fait ses études dans son pays natal, il découvre que les Français alliés de la Bavière ont détruit sa village et tué sa famille. Anderlan tire sur des soldats français et fuit avec l'uniforme d'un Hauptmann dragon bavarois. Il apprend dans un bal de cour à Innsbruck que les troupes de Napoléon envahiront bientôt, et organise la résistance armée de ses compatriotes.
Mountains on Fire, 1h49
Directed by Karl Hartl, Luis Trenker
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Documentary, Action
Themes Sports films, Political films
Actors Lissy Arna, Luis Trenker, Claus Clausen, Paul Graetz, Paul Graetz, Michael von Newlinsky
Roles Florian Dimai
Rating67% 3.3702653.3702653.3702653.3702653.370265
Shortly before the First World War, an Italian and an Austrian take part in a mountaineering expedition together. Not long afterwards they find themselves fighting on different sides.