Anatole de Grunwald
Anatole de Grunwald (Russian Анатолий Константинович фон Грюнвальд; born December 25, 1910 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, † January 13, 1967 in London, United Kingdom ) was a Russian -born film producer in the UK.
Life and work
The son of a tsarist diplomats fled with his family as a result of the October Revolution in England. De Grunwald studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and at Cambridge and worked briefly as a journalist before he joined the 1938 film. His first work was the unnamed writer 's employees on the filmic adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, the novel of a flower girl. His first work as a nominally called author was in the following year the comedy French Without Tears. Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, de Grunwald specializes in anti-Nazi propaganda films. His manuscripts that Grunwald usually written in collaboration with other authors, including several times Terence Rattigan, distinguished primarily by their polished dialogue and vouched for a high level of home-style - pure quality.
With the advertising for friendship with the Soviet Union Allies War comedy The Demi -Paradise de Grunwald 1943 began his career as a film producer. The choice Brite quickly gained a reputation for manufacturing well-maintained and carefully - expensive -produced entertainment, multiple implementations of literary works. Again and again drew Anatole de Grunwald in his productions as a writer responsible and secured while continuing the cooperation Rattigan. With the adaptation of a social drama Rattigan, The Winslow Boy, and the Pushkin adaptation Pique Dame de Grunwald's name was in 1948 for two of the most eminent literary adaptations of the early postwar period.
Over the 50's Grunwald's production program drew more and more by excessive smoothness and satiety. He presented melodramas and least pretentious as well as by critics as a star -studded canvas bore (Anthony Asquith Hotel International, The Yellow Rolls- Royce ) scolded A product ionenes ago.
His younger brother Dimitri de Grunwald (1914-1990) was also a film producer.