Julius Jaenzon
Julius Jaenzon ( pronunciation: [ ˌ ʝʉ ː liɵs ʝɑ ː nsɔn ], actually Julius Jaensson; born July 8, 1885 in Gothenburg, † February 17, 1961 in Stockholm) was a Swedish cinematographer and film director. He was involved in the production of numerous silent films of directors Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström. He sometimes used the pseudonym " J. Julius ".
Life
Jaenzon trained as a portrait photographer and opened his own studio. In 1905 he began making films he made in the following years, nature shots and reports in Norway, Sweden and the USA. This short film was made in 1908 in Norway The dangers of fishing life. From 1910 he worked for Charles Magnusson's film company Svenska Bio. Two years later, Magnusson obliged the directors Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjöström - Jaenzon filmed in 1912 Sjöström's debut film The Gardener and several films Stiller. By the end of the 1910s Jaenzon scored recordings of realistic people in real, harsh nature that established the reputation of the Swedish film of the silent movie era as a high quality especially for these directors. Among the most important works of this style include Terje Vigen (1917 ), mountain Ejvind and his wife (1918 ) and Herr Arne's Treasure (1919).
At Victor Sjöström's The carter of Death ( 1921) Jaenzon used extensively the film technique of multiple exposure, thus creating the need for the implementation of the same story Selma Lagerlöf ghostly images. In Mauritz Stiller's epic Gosta Berling (1924 ) - another film adaptation Lagerlöf - Jaenzon sat with his feeling for nature shots in addition to the main actors Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson again the Swedish countryside scene.
From the mid- 1920s Jaenzon often stood for Gustaf Molander behind the camera. Together with Edvin Adolphson, he directed Say it in tones (1929 ), one of Sweden's first sound film, directed.
The cameraman Henrik Jaenzon was the brother of Julius Jaenzon.