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Filmmaker · Sweden

Paul Merzbach

Died in 1943

Paul Merzbach was born in Vienna on 27 November 1888. He first worked for Austrian and German cinema as a screenwriter, then moved into directing in 1924. From the late twenties to 1932, he worked in Sweden, where he was at once screenwriter, editor and director, before returning to Germany. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he went into exile in Britain and wrote for the cinema there until 1942. He died in London in September 1943, aged fifty-four.

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