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Austrian actor and director (1885–1957)

Also known as: Eric Oswald Stroheim, Eric von Stroheim, Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Stroheim, Эрих фон Штрогейм, إريك فون ستروهايم, 에리히 폰 슈트로하임

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Émile Zola1840–1902
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Unflinching naturalism about avarice, lust and degradation that matches the tone of Stroheim's work. (AI reason)
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Portrays decadent Viennese officers, seduction and hypocrisy, the world of The Merry Widow and The Wedding March. (AI reason)
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Elegiac fiction about the decline of the Habsburg military aristocracy, echoing the officer-class nostalgia of La Grande Illusion. (AI reason)
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Psychologically intense tales of obsession and a vanished Austro-Hungarian society. (AI reason)
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American naturalism about money, ambition and social ruin with sprawling, detail-heavy realism. (AI reason)
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Sharp, cynical depictions of Viennese petty bourgeois and fading charm, as in Tales from the Vienna Woods. (AI reason)
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His screenplays, including Sunset Boulevard, blend cynicism, faded glamour and dark Hollywood satire. (AI reason)
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Jean Renoir1894–1979
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His screenplays and writings explore class, honor and war with humane irony, as in La Grande Illusion. (AI reason)
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Josef von Sternberg1894–1969
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Fellow Viennese-born silent-era auteur whose memoir and films share an ornate, decadent and fatalistic sensibility. (AI reason)
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