Axel Corti; Broadcaster, Movie Director

Axel Corti, 60, a broadcaster and filmmaker known for his works about Nazism and foreign immigrants in Europe. In 1968, Corti started a weekly radio magazine that continued until his death. In the 1970s, his films “The Refusal” and “A Young Man From the Inn Region--Adolf Hitler,” brought him international recognition. He was filming “Radetzky March,” a tale of life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire starring Charlotte Rampling and Max von Sydow, when he became ill. In Vienna on Wednesday of cancer.