Anatole de Grunwald

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Anatole de Grunwald ( Russian Анатолий Константинович фон Грюнвальд ; born December 25, 1910 in Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † January 13, 1967 in London , Great Britain ) was a Russian-born film producer in Great Britain.

Live and act

The son of a tsarist diplomat fled to England with his family as a result of the October Revolution . De Grunwald studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and Cambridge and worked briefly as a journalist before joining the film industry in 1938. His first work was the unnamed script collaboration on the film implementation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion , The novel of a flower girl . His first nominal work was the comedy French Without Tears the following year . Shortly after the outbreak of World War II , de Grunwald specialized in anti-Nazi propaganda films. His manuscripts, most of which Grunwald wrote in collaboration with other authors, including Terence Rattigan several times , were characterized above all by their polished dialogues and guaranteed a high degree of home-style, dignified quality.

De Grunwald began his career as a film producer in 1943 with the comedy The Demi-Paradise , which promoted friendship with the war allied Soviet Union . The Briton by choice quickly made a name for himself with the production of neat and carefully and expensively produced entertainment, multiple implementations of literary models. Again and again Anatole de Grunwald was responsible for his productions as an author and continued to secure Rattigan's collaboration. With the adaptation of a social drama Rattigan, The Winslow case , and the Pushkin adaptation Pique Dame in 1948, de Grunwald's name stood for two of the most excellent literary adaptations of the early post-war period.

In the course of the 1950s, Grunwald's production program was more and more characterized by overly smoothness and saturation. He produced melodramas and most recently also pretentious A-productions scolded by critics as star-studded screen bores ( Anthony Asquiths Hotel International , The Yellow Rolls-Royce ).

His younger brother Dimitri de Grunwald (1914–1990) was also a film producer.

Filmography

As a screenwriter, mostly in collaboration

  • 1938: The novel of a flower girl (unnamed)
  • 1939: French Without Tears
  • 1939: Spy for a Day
  • 1940: Freedom Radio
  • 1940: A quiet wedding ( Quiet Wedding )
  • 1940: Major Barbara
  • 1941: Pimpernel Smith
  • 1941: Jeannie
  • 1941: The Governor of Pennsylvania ( Penn of Pennsylvania )
  • 1942: Unpublished Story
  • 1942: The First of the Few
  • 1942: Secret Mission
  • 1942: Tomorrow We Live
  • 1943: Spionagering M ( They Met in the Dark )
  • 1943: The Demi-Paradise
  • 1944: English Without Tears
  • 1945: The Way to the Stars
  • 1946: While the Sun Shines
  • 1947: Bond Street
  • 1948: The Winslow case
  • 1948: Pique Dame ( The Queen of Spades )
  • 1950: Flesh and Blood
  • 1952: Treasure Hunt
  • 1952: The Holly and the Ivy
  • 1953: Innocents in Paris
  • 1958: Doctor at a crossroads ( The Doctor's Dilemma )
  • 1959: The night is my enemy ( Libel )

As a producer

  • 1943: The Demi-Paradise
  • 1944: English Without Tears
  • 1945: The Way to the Stars
  • 1946: While the Sun Shines
  • 1947: Bond Street
  • 1948: The Winslow case
  • 1948: Pique Dame ( The Queen of Spades )
  • 1948: The Last Days of Dolwyn
  • 1949: Now Barabbas was a Robber
  • 1949: Three Men and a Girl
  • 1950: Flesh and Blood
  • 1952: Treasure Hunt
  • 1952: The Holly and the Ivy
  • 1953: Innocents in Paris
  • 1958: Doctor at a crossroads ( The Doctor's Dilemma )
  • 1959: The night is my enemy ( Libel )
  • 1961: The Secret of the Green Drug ( I Thank a Fool )
  • 1962: Fly with me to happiness ( Come Fly With Me )
  • 1963: Hotel International
  • 1964: The Yellow Rolls-Royce ( The Yellow Rolls Royce )
  • 1967: The stranger in the house ( Stranger in the House )

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 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 424.

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personal data
SURNAME Grunwald, Anatole de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Грюнвальд, Анатолий Константинович фон (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-British film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1967
Place of death London , UK