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Emeric Pressburger


Born
in Miskolc, Hungary
December 05, 1902

Died
February 05, 1988

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Entertainment


Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer.
Educated at the Universities of Prague and Stuttgart, Emeric Pressburger worked as a journalist in Hungary and Germany and an author and scriptwriter in Berlin and Paris. He was a Hungarian Jew, chased around Europe (he worked on films for UFA in Berlin and Paris) before World War II, finally finding sanctuary in London - but as a scriptwriter who didn't speak English. So he taught himself to understand not only the finer nuances of the language but also of the British people. A few lucky breaks and introductions via old friends led to his meeting with "renegade" director Michael Powell. They then went on to make some of the most interesting and complex films of the 1940s and 1950s ...more

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“Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it â€� maybe even before I have thought it â€� and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life.”
― Emeric Pressburger
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