Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger ( born December 5, 1902 in Miskolc, Hungary, † 5 February 1988 Saxstead, Suffolk, UK; actually Imre József Pressburger ) was a Hungarian- British screenwriter, film director and film producer.
Life
After studying at the Universities of Prague and Stuttgart Pressburger began to work as a journalist, before the end of the 1920s worked as a screenwriter for the UFA in Berlin. After the Nazi seizure of power Pressburger fled to London. The film producer Alexander Korda gave him work as a screenwriter. When working on the film The Spy in Black (1939 ) learned Pressburger film director Michael Powell know. The two founded the production company, The Archers and produced in the following 20 years 19 films together. Since the team Powell Pressburger always acted as directors, writers and producers in personal union, they were some of the few representatives of auteur cinema, to which this term really applies.
Pressburger wrote next to a number of shorter stories and novels Killing a Mouse on Sunday (1961; German Do not come to Pamplona, 1963) and The Glass Pearls ( 1966).
Emeric Pressburger was married from 1938 to the division in 1941 with AGI Donáth and from 1947 to 1971 in second marriage to the Englishwoman Wendy Orme. From this marriage, which was also divorced, had two children. Bratislava's grandchildren are Andrew Macdonald (born 1966 ) and Kevin Macdonald (born 1967 ), her character also filmmakers.