Ludwig Berger (director)

Ludwig Berger, born Ludwig Bamberger on 6 January 1892 and dead on 18 May 1969, was a German-Jewish film director, screenwriter and theatre director. He directed more than thirty films between 1920 and 1969. His film career began in the German industry of the Weimar Republic, and at Decla-Bioscop and later at UFA he built a reputation as one of the leading directors of silent films. He emigrated to Hollywood but could not establish himself there and went back to Europe, where he worked in both France and Germany. He sat on the jury of the sixth Berlin International Film Festival. Berger also translated several Shakespeare plays into German, among them Cymbeline, Hamlet and Timon of Athens. His elder brother, the set designer Rudolf Bamberger, was killed in 1945.