Georg Stefan Troller

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Georg Stefan Troller

Born December 10, 1921 · Vienna, Austria

Died September 27, 2025 · aged 103

Georg Stefan Troller (10 December 1921 – 27 September 2025) was an Austrian-born German-language journalist, writer, director and screenwriter, who became a US-Citizen in WWII and finally settled in Paris in 1949, where he lived until the end of his life. Troller was born on 10 December 1921 to a Jewish family. In 1938, he fled Austria from the Nazis, first to Czechoslovakia and from there on to …

Known For

God Does Not Believe in Us AnymoreGod Does Not Believe in Us Anymore · 1982
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
7.31982
MovieDramaWar
After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.
Amok!Amok! · 2001
Amok!
10.02001
MovieDocumentary
Wayne Lo is intellectually gifted, did well at school and plays the violin superbly. At Simon's Rock College in Massachusetts he shot dead two men unprovoked, injured many others and is now serving a life sentence. Troller draws a bold portrait that centres around one question: why?
SelbstbeschreibungSelbstbeschreibung · 2001
Selbstbeschreibung
7.02001
MovieDocumentary
Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a chronicler of his time and with this film he engages in some bold and self-ironic navel gazing.
Love in HollywoodLove in Hollywood · 1996
Love in Hollywood
10.01996
MovieDocumentary
Various Hollywood people talk about love.
Mord aus LiebeMord aus Liebe · 1993
Mord aus Liebe
7.01993
MovieDocumentary
Love, it is said, always ends fatally - either for love or for the lovers. In his highly acclaimed portrait film, Georg Stefan Troller meets people who have murdered for love - or what they thought was love. Those who strangled their partners in their sleep, attacked them with a knife or shot them, are stunned by their own actions in retrospect. It now seems incomprehensible to them that a brief moment, a moment of being out of their depth, was enough to throw them off course once and for all. With a detective's instinct, Troller delves into the perpetrators' innermost secrets. A movie about the mental abysses that gape in all of us and the longing for love that remains - for life.
GebürtigGebürtig · 2002
Gebürtig
4.32002
MovieDrama
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.
Days and Nights in ParisDays and Nights in Paris · 2004
Days and Nights in Paris
2004
MovieDocumentary
Reencounter with a myth. 40 years since Georg Stefan Troller reported from his adopted home in "Pariser Journal," he returns to his old haunts. A journey through time in a city of contradictions that is always reinventing itself.
Welcome in ViennaWelcome in Vienna · 1986
Welcome in Vienna
6.81986
MovieDramaWar
Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. But with the advent of the Cold War and continuing anti-semitism, the idealism of both characters is shattered as they find themselves surrounded by cynicism, opportunism, and universal self-deception.

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