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Werner Brandes
1889 - 1968 |
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. The cinematographer Curt Courant already got in touch with the film business in 1917 where he first worked as an assistant for the movies of the "May-Film". He soon got the chance to prove himself as a cinematographer and he shot his first movies "Die Kaukasierin" (17), "Hilde Warren und der Tod" (17) and "Der Onyxknopf" (17). It followed other works with "Sein bester Freund" (18), "Das Opfer" (18), "Irrlicht" (19), "Staatsanwalt Jordan" (19) and "Das Herz des Casanova" (19). As an established cinematographer he got numerous engagements during the 20s and he was also part of some productions with a huge budget. To his most popular works of those years belong "Schloss Einöd" (20), "Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstrasse" (20), "Hamlet" (21), "Peter der Grosse" (22), "Tiefland" (23), "Quo Vadis?" (24), "Die Brüder Schellenberg" (26), "Wehe wenn sie losgelassen" (26), "Die Czardasfürstin" (27), "Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt" (29) and "Frau im Mond" (29). In the sound film era of the 30s he could only took part in German movies for a few more years and he was the cinematographer of "Der weisse Teufel" (30), "Der Mann, der den Mord beging" (31), "Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen" (32), "Scampolo, ein Kind der Strasse" (32) and "Johannisnacht" (33). With the National Socialists coming to power he went to France and in the next years he worked for French and British productions like "Perfect Understanding" (33), "Le voleur" (33), "The Iron Duke" (34), Alfred Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (34), "Broken Blossoms" (36), "Spy of Napoleon" (36), "Le mensonge de Nina Petrovna" (37), "La maison du Maltais" (38), "Le puritain" (38), "La bête humaine" (38), "Le corsaire" (39) and "De Mayerling à Sarajevo" (40). When Germany also took over the power in France Curt Courant emigrated to the USA. There he was not able to continue his work in the film business because they refused the membership at the ASC. It was none other than the great Charles Chaplin who engaged him as a camera assistant for his movie "Monsieur Verdoux" (47). But it remained his only work as a cinematographer for the present. Only for "It Happened in Athens" (62) he worked as a cinematographer again for the last time. His nephew Willy Kurant bacame a well-known cinematographer as well. Other
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