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Andrej Andrejew


1887 - 1967

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The production designer Andrej Andrejew joined the academy of arts in Moscow where he studied architecture, afterwards he began his professional career as a set designer at the Stanislawski theater.
Like many other Russians he had to leave his home country because of the October Revolution and he came to Berlin where he soon gained a foothold at the theater. He created the sets for performances at Max Reinhardt's "Deutsches Theater".

He joined the film business in 1923 and he was the production designer for the movie "Raskolnikow" (23).
He soon became a demandes production designer and he was engaged for numerous well-known productions.
To his most popular works of those years belong "Das Geheimnis der alten Mamsell" (25), "Die Mühle von Sanssouci" (26), "Überflüssige Menschen" (26), "Die Weber" (27), "Thérèse Raquin" (28), "Mary Lou" (28), "Die Heilige und ihr Narr" (28), "Wolga Wolga" (28), "Meineid" (29), "Sprengbagger 1010" (29) and "Die Büchse der Pandora" (29).

His last cinematical works for the German film came at the beginning of the 30s into being, among them "Die letzte Kompagnie" (30), "Die 3 Groschen-Oper" (31) and "Der Raub der Mona Lisa" (31).

When G.W. Pabst went to France to shoot the movie "Don Quichote" (33) he took Andrey Andrejew to France with him. He remained abroad and he was responsible as a production designer for French and English movies. To these movies belong "Volga en flammes" (35), "The Dictator" (35), "Mayerling" (36), "Le golem" (36), "Tarass Boulba" (36), "La citadelle du silence" (37), "Lumières de Paris" (38), "Paris New-York" (40), "Caprices" (42), "La main du diable" (43) and "Pierre et Jean" (43).

After the war he remained in England for the time being.
To his British postwar movies belong "Anna Karenina" (48), "The Winslow Boy" (48), "The Man Between" (53), "Mambo" (54), "Alexander the Great" (56) and "Anastasia" (56).

His last works as a productions designer came in Germany into being again with "Bonjour Kathrin" (56) and "Madeleine und der Legionär" (58).


Other movies from Andrej Andrejew:
Die Macht der Finsternis (24) Briefe, die ihn nicht erreichten (25) Der Trödler von Amsterdam (25) Die Försterchristel (26) Der Veilchenfresser (26) Die Flucht in den Zirkus (26) Die lachende Grille (26) Der Zigeunerbaron (27) Alpentragödie (27) Der goldene Abgrund (27) Das tanzende Wien (27) Die Spielerin (27) Im Luxuszug (27) Heut tanzt Mariett (28) Zwei rote Rosen (28) Der Ladenprinz (29) Der Herzensphotograph (28) Mein Herz ist eine Jazzband (29) Diane (29) Die Liebe der Brüder Rott (29) Der Narr seiner Liebe (29) Revolte im Erziehungshaus (30) Ihre Majestät die Liebe (31) Die lustigen Weiber von Wien (31) Liebeskommando (31) Grossstadtnacht (32) Mirages de Paris (33) Dans les rues (33) Les nuits moscovites (34) Whom the Gods Love (36) Das Gässchen zum Paradies (36) Le vagabond bien-aimé (36) La prinsipessa Tarakanova (38) Le drame de Shanghai (38) L'esclave Blanche (39) Jeunes filles en détresse (39) Elles étaient douze femmes (40) Les musiciens du ciel (40) Le dernier des six (41) La symphonie fantastiwue (42) Simplet (42) Mon amour est près de toi (43) Picpus (43) Au bonheur des dames (43) La ferme aux loups (43) Le dernier sou (46) The Winslow Boy (48) Britannia Mews (49) That Dangerous Age (49) Melba (53)

 
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