Franz Planer(1894-1963)

The Planer Jewish family was very influential, and owned large tracts of farmland, businesses, libraries, and shops in Austria-Hungary, and several properties in and around Vienna, some of which were stolen by certain low ranking officers for their own family's use in the mid to late 1930s using falsely issued papers, and threats.

[on the collaboration between he and director Anatole Litvak on I dannati (1951), which has been praised for its gritty, entirely shot-on-location camerawork] It was our aim to make a picture with all the blunt realism of a U.S. Army Signal Corps documentary.