Born in Vienna in 1902 and died in Zurich in 1984, Leopold Lindtberg was a theatre director who emigrated to Switzerland, where he worked at the Zurich Schauspielhaus, a refuge for exiled artists, and made the most important Swiss films of the war years. The Last Chance (1945), with a cast of soldiers and refugees of different nationalities, tells the story of refugees fleeing across the Alps, and shared the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1946. Four in a Jeep (1951), a drama about four Allied military policemen in occupied Vienna, won the Golden Bear.
Filmography
- The Last Chance (1945)
- Four in a Jeep (1951)