Highest rated movie: The Name of the Rose (1986)
Lowest rated movie: Diary of a Serial Killer (1969)
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Movies starring Helmut Qualtinger have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 66%.
The Name of the Rose - released in 1986 - is Helmut Qualtinger's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 517 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Helmut Qualtinger is Diary of a Serial Killer - released in 1969 - with a score of 60% based on 2 reviews.
Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria. He initially studied medicine, but quit university to become a newspaper reporter and film critic for local press, while beginning to write text for cabaret performances and theatre plays. Qualtinger debuted as an actor at a student theater and attended the Max Reinhardt Seminar as a guest student.
Beginning in 1947, he appeared in cabaret performances. In 1949, Qualtinger's first theatrical play, the youth in front of the barriers, what is staged in Graz. Up to 1960, Qualtinger collaborated on various cabaret programmes with the Nameless Ensemble made up of Gerhard Bronner, Carl Merz, Louise Martini, Peter Wehle, Georg Kreisler, and Michael Kehlmann.
Qualtinger was famous for his practical jokes. In 1951, he managed to launch a false report in several newspapers announcing a visit to Vienna of a (fictional) famous Inuit poet named Kobuk (author of "The Burning Igloo"). The reporters who assembled at the railway station however were to witness Qualtinger, in fur coat and cap, stepping from the train. Asked about his "first impressions of Vienna", the "Inuit poet" commented in broad Viennese dialect, "Haaaßis'sdo - [It's hot here]."
The short one-man play, The Lord Charles, written by Qualtinger and Carl Merz and performed by Qualtinger, in 1961, made the author known across German-speaking countries. "Herr Karl", a grocery store clerk, tells the story of his life to an imaginary colleague - from the days of the Habsburg empire, the First Austrian Republic, the Austro-fascist regime leading up to the connector (annexation) by Nazi Germany, World war II and finally military occupation by Allied forces in the 1950s, seen from the perspective of a one who is a prototypical opportunist. Qualtinger's portrayal of the petit-bourgeois Nazi collaborator came at a time when "normality" had just been restored and Austrians were interested' involvement in the Nazi movement was being downplayed and "forgotten", making many enemies for the author, who even received anonymous threats of murder.
Beginning in the 1970s, Qualtinger frequently performed recitals of his own and other texts, including excerpts from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and Karl Kraus' die letzten tage der menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind). These recitals were highly popular and resulted in several records being published.
Qualtinger played countless theater, TV and film parts, making his final appearance in The Name of the Rose in 1986, along with Sean Connery.
Qualtinger died in Vienna on 29 September 1986, of a liver condition.
Helmut Qualtinger has acted in films with Sean Connery, Ron Perlman, Christian Slater and F. Murray Abraham.
Helmut Qualtinger has worked with these film directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud and Helmut Käutner.
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