Hanns Eisler

Composer

Born: July 6, 1898 (64 years old)

Died: September 6, 1962

Place of birth: Leipzig, Germany

Biography

Hanns Eisler (1898–1962) was a German-Austrian composer. He is best known for composing the national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. Because of his Jewish background and his communist convictions, Eisler was in exile during the 1930s and 1940s.

Filmography (24)

• Night and Fog (1956, ★ 8.3)
• Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932, ★ 6.9)
• The Witches of Salem (1957, ★ 6.9)
• Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux (2003, ★ 5.8)
• Jealousy (1945, ★ 5.7)
• Hell on Earth (1931, ★ 6.6)
• Rain (1929, ★ 7.4)
• Our Daily Bread (1949, ★ 6)
• None But the Lonely Heart (1944, ★ 6.4)
• New Earth (1933, ★ 6.8)
• Hangmen Also Die! (1943, ★ 6.9)
• The Spanish Main (1945, ★ 6.5)
• The 400 Million (1939, ★ 6.3)
• A Scandal in Paris (1946, ★ 6.4)
• Council of the Gods (1950, ★ 6.6)
• Action J (1961, ★ 6.2)
• Far from Vietnam (1967, ★ 7.1)
• The Woman on the Beach (1947, ★ 6.2)
• Opus III (1924, ★ 6.5)
• Deadline at Dawn (1946, ★ 6.3)
• The Great Game (1934, ★ 7.1)
• Galileo (1975, ★ 6)
• So Well Remembered (1947, ★ 5)
• Communists (2014, ★ 4.5)