Reinert, Emile-Edwin

(March 16, 1903, Rawa-ruska, Poland-October 17, 1953, Paris, France)

   Having trained as an electrotechnician, he arrived in France in 1924 and made his film debut as a sound engineer in 1930. He was also an assistant director (1930 Cain, Aventures des Mers exotiques / UK: Cain / USA: Rama / Rama, the Cannibal Girl / Savage Bride, Léon Poirier), producer (1936 Gypsy Melody, Edmond T. Gréville, UK), and screenwriter (1951 Les Mémoires de la Vache Yolande, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Ernest Neubach).

 Filmography

1932 ◘ La machine à Sous (short)

1936 ◘ Not Wanted on Voyage / Treachery on the High Seas (UK)

1939 ◘ Le Danube bleu (also co-screenwriter; co-director with Alfred Rode; second version of a film burned in a fire that destroyed the LTC laboratories in Saint-Cloud)

        ◘ Tombé du Ciel (also adapter)

        ◘ Le Destin s'amuse

        ◘ L'Eventail / USA: Naughty Martine Les Requins de Gibraltar

1949 ◘ Fandango

        ◘ Ainsi finit la Nuit / UK and USA: Thus Finishes the Night

1950 ◘ Rendez-vous avec la Chance / USA: Bed for Two (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Quai de Grenelle / USA: The Strollers (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

1951 ◘ A Tale of Five Cities / Passaporto per l'Oriente / Racconti di cinque città / Storia di cinque città / L'Inconnu des Cinq Cités / Funf Madchen und ein Mann / Funf Stadte - Funf Madchen (also co-screenwriter, co-director of a segment; UK / Italy / France / West Germany / Austria)

        ◘ Vertraumte Tage (also co-screenwriter; West Germany / France)

        ◘ L'Aiguille rouge

        ◘ Wiener Walzer / Wien tantzt / UK: Viennese Waltzes / USA: Vienna Waltzes (also co-screenwriter; Austria / Liechtenstein)

        ◘ Maria Theresa (Austria)

1952 ◘ Gefahliches Abenteuer / Abenteuer in Wien / Ich war Jack Mortimer / Adventures in Vienna (Austria / USA)