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He also worked for the architecture office of his brother Josef.

Besides his cinematical works in the USSR he also created numerous set decorations for the stage for operas and ballets.

The production designer Artur Berger began his film career for the Sascha-Film for which he created numerous set decorations from 1920.

When Artur Berger was invited to Moscow to work as a production designer for Russian movies he followed the invitation.

Berger had two sons, Peter (died 2001) and Sascha (living in Moscow) who both worked as architects, in Austria and Russia (Moscow), and also two daughters, Marianne, (died 2009) and Vera, (died in October 2020 at age 102) in Wörgl, Tirol, Austria.

He continued his film career successfully in the Sovjet Union and with the outbreak of World War II it was out of question for him to return to Austria. He obtained the Sovjet citizenship in 1939.

To his cinematical works in the Sovjet Union belonged "Tanecek panny marinky" (1935), "Borba prodolzhaetsya" (1939), "Annushka" (1959), "Bey, baraban!" (1962), "Operatsiya Y i drugie priklyucheniya" (1965) and "Chelovek v shtatskom" (1973).

In 1923 he co-founded the production facility "Bimini" together with his brothers which specialised in glass, ceramic and furniture.

Artur Berger already directed his first movie in 1916 with "Frau Eva" (1916), many years later followed other works as a director with "Wilde Ehen" (1929) and the political advertising film "Die vom 17er Haus" (1932). Beside it he also wrote the screenplays for "Frau Eva" (16), "Die grosse Liebe" (31) and "Die vom 17er Haus" (32).

He continued his film career in Austria at the beginning of the 30s.