Adolf Trotz

Trotz was born in Janow in what is now Poland in Silesia.^[2] He originally studied pharmacy and philosophy, but began a career in film after the first World War.^[2]

Trotz's 1932 film Rasputin, Demon with Women was certified as "artistically valuable"; however, in 1933, Joseph Goebbels banned the film throughout Germany and ordered all prints and advertising materials to be destroyed. Trotz smuggled both the original pictorial and soundtrack negatives to a farmhouse in Austria.^[3] At one point in 1933, he was part of the wave of German émigrés who fled to Paris.^[4] In 1936, Goebbels banned his 1933 film Ways to a Good Marriage, which depicted the path to happiness as advice based on the sexology research done by Magnus Hirschfeld, and Trotz fled to Spain in 1936.^[5][6] He continued producing films there until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.^[7]

After Spain, Trotz moved to Italy in November 1936. He died in Italy shortly before the outbreak of World War II.

In 1926, Trotz married screenwriter and editor Ruth Schweriner.^[8] They remained married until his death.

• Gold and Luck (1923)
• The Curse of Vererbung (1927)
• Sixteen Daughters and No Father (1928)
• The Woman in the Advocate's Gown (1929)^[1]
• Tragedy of Youth (1929)
• Somnambul (1929)
• The Right of the Unborn (1929)
• Karriere (1930)
• It Happens Every Day (1930)
• A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
• Shooting Festival in Schilda (1931)
• Elisabeth of Austria (1931)^[5]
• Rasputin, Demon with Women (1932)^[9]
• Tatras Zauber (1933)
• Ways to a Good Marriage (1933)