Alexander of Lagorio

Alexander von Lagorio (born October 26, 1890 in Warsaw , Poland ; † June 1, 1965 in Stockholm , Sweden ) was a German film cameraman and photographer.

Life

The son of the professor of mineralogy Alexander Evgenievic Karl Leo von Lagorio and Julie Louise, b. von Faltin studied engineering in Saint Petersburg before the First World War . He came to Finland with his father's family in 1917 and to Berlin in October 1920, where his father Lagorio became the assistant to the chemist Wilhelm Ostwald . Inspired by the scientific work of his father and Ostwald, Alexander von Lagorio dealt with the technical problems of color film and in 1923 made recordings for a film about Ostwald's color theory.

With the trick photography for Der Kampf der Tertia he got into feature film production in 1928. Then he switched to working as a cameraman, initially as a partner of Curt Oertel . His collaboration with Leni Riefenstahl from 1936 to 1938 for her two Olympic films was of particular importance . In 1940 he also provided the recordings for the first full-length German color film Women Are Better Diplomats .

After that, von Lagorio withdrew from active film work and dealt with technical and artistic questions of film design, including in the lecture published in 1942 The lifelike rendering of colors in color film .

The painter Lev Lagorio was his great-uncle.

Filmography

1928 The Battle of the Tertia (trick shots) 1929 revolt in the house of education 1930 The Don Cossack Song 1931 no man's land 1933 And now work is in progress (short film) 1933 The Schimmelreiter 1934 Black hunter Johanna 1934 The steel beam

1935: a hundred days 1935 attack on Schweda 1935 The impossible woman 1936 Standschützen Bruggler 1936 The unknown 1936 Olympia (2 parts) 1940 women are better diplomats

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 542.

Web links

• Alexander von Lagorio at filmportal.de
• Alexander von Lagorio in the Internet Movie Database (English)