Otto Kanturek
Kanturek Otto ( born July 27, 1897 in Vienna, † 26 June 1941 in Cawston, Norfolk ) was an Austrian cinematographer and film director.
Life
Kanturek underwent training at the Graphic Arts Research Institute in Vienna. After a traineeship at the Gaumont newsreel he arrived in 1912 as an assistant cameraman to film. In 1913 he followed a call to producer Erich Pommer to Paris. There he filmed for newsreels of the company Pathé, Gaumont and Éclair.
In 1914 he went to Milano movie to Milan in 1915 to Sascha film to Vienna and Alexander Korda in Budapest. In 1916 he was drafted and was in special photographic services. During the war he made his debut as director of photography.
In 1920 he came to Berlin. In the 1920s he made numerous films, including Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon. After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis in 1933, he left Germany. About Vienna and Prague, where he directed the film The cottage in Grinzing, he came to London in late 1933.
Here he continued his work as a cinematographer successfully continued, among other things, You are my heart with Richard Tauber. Also, as a director, he has performed with the Love film The Student's Romance once again in evidence. He died at the aerial shots for the film A Yank in the RAF as a Hawker Hurricane collided with his Avro Anson.