Phil Jutzi

Philipp Jutzi, Piel Jutzi also ( born July 22, 1896 in Altleiningen; † May 1, 1946 in Neustadt on the Wine Route ) was a German cinematographer and film director.

Life

The son of a master tailor attended an arts and crafts school after completion of primary school and autodidactic attempts at painting. In 1916, he worked as a billboard painter for a small cinema in the Black Forest. In World War I he was unfit for service by reason of physical infirmity and divided only for " ancillary services". From 1919 he directed the International Film Industry GmbH ( ifi ) in Heidelberg, which specialized in detective and Wild West movies, directing. In 1923 he married Emmy Philippine Zimmermann, the sister of actor Holmes Zimmermann, the protagonist of some of his later films were; In May 1926, a daughter, Gisela, born.

1925 Phil Jutzi went to Berlin, where he talks about the International Workers Aid ( IAH) came to the communist film cartel World film in which he turned current events as a cameraman. 1928/29, came here under his direction, the semi -documentary film To 's daily bread ( Hunger in Waldenburg ). From 1926 Jutzi worked as a director at the proletarian Prometheus movie where he successfully contributed to the production of the German sound version of the Soviet film Battleship Potemkin and - among other things with the film Mother Krausens Journey to Happiness (1929 ) - a leading director of the " proletarian " film developed. After financial difficulties impossible for a planned film adaptation of Anna Seghers ' novel Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara with Asta Nielsen and Jutzis bitterness grew, he joined in late 1929 and from the Communist Party, whose member he had been since the beginning of 1928.

The change of his first name in the Palatinate dialect form of " Piel " (early 1920s ) led in 1931 to a process with the actor and director Harry Piel Jutzi the lost. Since then, he again led the given name " Phil".

At the completion of the Alfred Döblin filming Berlin - Alexanderplatz ( 1931) with Henry George as Franz Biber head followed a political reorientation. In March 1933, Phil Jutzi joined the NSDAP and two months later the National Socialist Factory Cell Organization movie ( NSBO ) at. Under National Socialism Jutzi has developed into a productive short film director; 1933-1941 created under his aegis no less than 49 short films. The production of full-length feature films was initially not allow him because of his political history. 1934/35 led Jutzi Director in the German espionage agent provocateur Asev film with Fritz Rasp and Olga Chekhova, and then in the Austrian espionage drama The Cossack and the Nightingale ( with Ivan Petrovich Jarmila Novotna and ). A renowned star director was not Jutzi and his financial situation remained until the end of his life difficult.

In the 1940s, Phil Jutzis health deteriorated and made it despite a permanent position as chief cameraman at Empire Post- Television Society (1942 ) and an involvement in the Berlin Lex movie where Jutzi on behalf of the Reich Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education ( RWU ) should produce some cultural films, largely incapacitated. After the end of World War II, he returned to his home Altleiningen, but died the following year.

Filmography

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