Akos Farkas

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Akos Farkas (born September 9, 1898 in Abrudbánya , Transylvania , † February 2, 1971 in Garden City , New York , USA ) was a Hungarian cameraman whose main field of activity was German and Dutch film.

Live and act

Originally from Transylvania, Farkas learned his trade in Budapest and Berlin . His compatriot Alexander Korda made it possible for him to get his first job as head cameraman in the early 1920s. In the following years Akos Farkas worked alongside experienced cameramen such as Carl Drews , Mutz Greenbaum , Axel Graatkjaer and Franz Planer . Most of the feature films he photographed were pure entertainment productions and have no historical significance whatsoever.

When the National Socialists came to power, the Hungarian Jew had to leave Germany . In exile in the Netherlands, Farkas worked primarily for the directors Jaap Speyer , Ludwig Berger and Detlef Sierck , who once worked in Germany . In 1937 Farkas followed another exile director, Kurt Gerron , to filming ( De drie wensen ) in Rome and stayed there the following year for further Italian film assignments . After the German troops marched into the Netherlands in May 1940, Farkas could no longer work in his original profession.

In April 1951 Akos Farkas left his Dutch community of Wassenaar and traveled on to Canada , where he worked for the French-Canadian film and in 1954 was the co-cameraman responsible for an American B-film production there. After that he remained inactive as a movie cameraman. Farkas, the last American citizen, died in Nassau County near New York in early 1971 .

Filmography

  • 1923: The last sensation of the Farini circus
  • 1924: Tragedy in the Habsburg family
  • 1924: Triad of the Night
  • 1928: The President
  • 1928: Five anxious days
  • 1928: Volga-Volga
  • 1929: Escape to the Foreign Legion
  • 1929: On the Reeperbahn at half past twelve
  • 1929: poison gas
  • 1929: Rhapsody of love (Kult ciala)
  • 1929: two brothers
  • 1930: marriage strike
  • 1930: Only on the Rhine
  • 1930: The Forester Christian
  • 1931: The way to Rio
  • 1931: Madame goes out
  • 1931: Salto Mortale
  • 1933: Willem van Oranje
  • 1934: The Three Sailors (De jantjes)
  • 1934: Malle gevallen
  • 1934: De familie van mijn vrouw
  • 1935: The secret of the moonlight sonata ( Het mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate )
  • 1936: Merijntje Gijzen's Jeugd
  • 1936: Op een avond in mei
  • 1936: Oranje Hein
  • 1937: Pygmalion
  • 1937: De drie wensen
  • 1937: I tre desideri
  • 1938: Voglio vivere con Letizia
  • 1938: Tutta la vita in una notte
  • 1938: Stella del mare
  • 1939: buoy
  • 1940: Ergens in Nederland
  • 1951: Le rossignol et les cloches
  • 1952: Tit-Coq
  • 1953: Halifax, port de mer (short documentary)
  • 1954: Operation Manhunt

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 159.

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personal data
SURNAME Farkas, Akos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Abrudbánya , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH 2nd February 1971
Place of death Garden City , New York , USA