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Emeric Pressburger
Hungarian-British screenwriter, director and producer (1902–1988)
The native form of this personal name is Pressburger Imre József. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Emeric Pressburger | |
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Pressburger in Paris | |
| Born | Imre József Pressburger (1902-12-05)5 December 1902 Miskolc, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 5 February 1988(1988-02-05) (aged 85) Saxtead, England |
| Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, producer, director and production house co-founder with Michael Powell |
| Spouses | Ági Donáth (m. 1938–1941)Wendy Orme (m. 1947–1971) |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives | Andrew MacDonald (grandson) Kevin Macdonald (grandson) |
Emeric Pressburger (born Imre József Pressburger; 5 December 1902 – 5 February 1988) was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a collaboration pa
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EMERIC PRESSBURGER
Oscar-Winning Screenwriter
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Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger was an Oscar-winning screenwriter whose films are considered "amongst the most extraordinary ever made in Britain."[1] His partnership with director Michael Powell has been termed "one of the most inspired in the history of British cinema, producing a body of films notable for their passion and fantasy."[2] Pressburger and Powell have been called "two of the most iconic British filmmakers of the 1940s and 50s."[3] The movies on which they collaborated include: The Tales of Hoffman,The Elusive Pimpernel, The Red Shoes (nominated for Best Picture and Best Story Oscars), Black Narcissus, and One of Our Aircraft is Missing (nominated for Best Original Screenplay). In 1942, Pressburger won an Oscar for Best Writing, Original Story, for the film Forty-Ninth Parallel (released in the US as The Invaders).
The son of Kalman Pressburger and Katerina Wichs, Emeric Pressburger was born Imre Jozef Pressburger in Miskolc on
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Imre József Pressburger was born into a Jewish family in Austria-Hungary in 1902. He studied engineering at Prague and Stuttgart universities before moving to Weimar-era Berlin in 1926. There he fell on hard times and lived on the streets for a period before publishing his first short story in 1928. Two years later he started writing scripts for UFA, the dominant German studio of the time. With the rise of the Nazis in 1933, Pressburger lost his job in the purge or Jewish employees and fled to Paris. His mother and many other relatives subsequently died in the Holocaust. In 1935 he relocated to London, anglicising his name to Emeric and meeting the director Michael Powell. Starting in 1942 they shared credit for writing, producing and directing fourteen films under the banner of their production company, The Archers. Their classic films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes. In the early 1960’s he wrote two novels, Killing a Mouse on Sunday and The Glass Pearls. After a long period in the critical wil
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