Franz Seitz Sr.


Franz Seitz Sr. was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 59 films between 1920 and 1951. His son Franz Seitz Jr. was a film producer.
In 1933, he directed S.A.-Mann Brand, one of the first propaganda films made after the instauration of the Nazi regime in Germany. While expounding the purported virtues of joining the ranks of the Nazi Party, the film is notable for the absence of any anti-Semitic themes.

Selected filmography

The Face Removed The Masked Ones The Testament of Billions The Favourite of the Queen The Emperor's Old Clothes The Path to God The Adventurous Wedding Mrs Worrington's Perfume The Hunter of Fall The Merry Farmer Poor Little Colombine The Gambling Den of Montmartre Almenrausch and Edelweiss The Women's War Behind Monastery Walls Left of the Isar, Right of the Spree The Chaste Coquette The Champion Shot The Master Detective S.A.-Mann Brand The Tannhof Women Between Heaven and Earth There Were Two Bachelors The Unsuspecting Angel Judgement Day Two in One Suit