Leopold LindtbergLeopold Lindtberg, born in Vienna in 1902, was an Austrian-Swiss director and writer. His wartime film The Last Chance (1946) received a Golden Globe, and the Grand Prix award and International Peace Prize at Cannes. Other notable films include The Vllage (1953) and Die missbrauchten Liebesbriefe (1940). A former actor, he trained at the Vienna Conservatory, and began as a stage director in Germany. The son of a Jewish merchant, Lindtberg moved to Switzerland in the early 1940s to evade Nazi persecution and became that country's preeminent filmmaker as well as the director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich from 1933 to 1948. Read More Read Less