Nicolas Farkas
Nicolas Farkas (also Nicholas Farkas, Miklós actually Nicholas, born July 27, 1890 in Hungary, † March 22, 1982 in New York) was a Hungarian cinematographer.
Life and work
Farkas came to Vienna in 1919, and until 1924 the educated in Hungary and Vienna cameraman worked for the Austrian film. He filmed among other things, Mihaly Kertesz, Alexander Korda, Hans and Robert Theyer country. 1925 Farkas began to work in Germany. Individual projects also led him to the Soviet Union and Poland. His most recent major projects have included Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1931, directed by Phil Jutzi ) and Don Quixote (1933, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst ).
After 1933 he worked in France, where he also worked as a director and writer. In 1941 he emigrated to the United States and participated there in propaganda short films for the U.S. Navy. He last lived continuously in New York, where he ran his own small production company with Farkas Films Inc..