Akos Farkas (cinematographer)
Akos Farkas (1898–1971) was a Hungarian-born cinematographer who worked in a number of different countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada and the United States. He worked on more than thirty films during his career including Frederic Zelnik's The Forester's Daughter (1931)[1] Because of his Jewish heritage, Farkas had to leave Germany following the Nazi takeover in 1933.
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| Born | 9 September 1898 Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 2 February 1971 (aged 72) |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1923-1954 |
Selected filmography
- The Third Watch (1924)
- The Bohemian Dancer (1926)
- Five Anxious Days (1928)
- The President (1928)
- On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1929)
- Only on the Rhine (1930)
- Marriage Strike (1930)
- Road to Rio (1931)
- Salto Mortale (1931)
- The Forester's Daughter (1931)
- Willem van Oranje (1934)
- Pygmalion (1937)
- The Three Wishes (1937)
- Star of the Sea (1938)
- All of Life in One Night (1938)
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gollark: So all purported *recent* Dres landings are actually from Gilly.
gollark: My view is that Dres *did* exist, but it was so amazing and great that it was destroyed by too many space missions running all its mass through ISRUs.
gollark: That was a typo and not a sign of my discrimination against moons.
gollark: I'm subscribed to the Death Star's, but it's no moon, let alone a planet.
References
- Klossner p.146
Bibliography
- Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500-1815 on Film and Television. McFarland & Co., 2002.
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
- Akos Farkas on IMDb
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