Trivia

He created his greatest successes during the silent movie era of the 20s, first in Austria and from 1925 in Germany too.

Robert Land left Germany and he worked in the next few years in Czechoslovakia and Austria. There he was the director for productions like "Melodramma" 19(34), "Jana, das Mädchen aus dem Böhmerwald" (1935) and "Panenka" (1938).

He was able to continue his film career as a director in Germany at the beginning of the 30s and he shot movies like "Boykott" (1930) but as a Jews his days in Germany were numbered in 1933.

He spent his teenager years in Vienna where he also joined an acting school.

He gained a foothold at the theater in 1911 and he impersonated numerous roles on different stages in the next years.

What happened to him is lying in nebulosity. Some sources are reporting from an escape to Paris where his track went lost, others are reporting of an arrest and following homicide.

When he got enthusiastic from the film business in 1914 he even founded an own film company which produced several short movies. Robert Land not only realised them as a producer but also a director.

Besides his activity as an actor Robert Land was also working as a screen writer and producer.

After World War I he was able to use his experiences as a director for other film companies and he began to realise feature movies as a director.