Max Glass

Max Glass (12 June 1881 – 18 July 1965) was an Austrian screenwriter, film director, and producer.

Glass was born in Jaroslau, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish family, but later converted to Catholicism.

Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany in 1933, Glass' production companies were shut down and he was forced to go into exile in France.

[1] Glass again worked as a producer, but ran into further trouble following the German invasion of France during the Second World War.

Glass and Werner then went to Brazil and United States for the remainder of the conflict, only returning to France once the war was over.