Andor from Barsy
Andor von Barsy (born March 14, 1899 in Budapest , † December 24, 1964 in Munich ) was a Hungarian cameraman .
Life
After attending the Austrian secondary school, which he finished with the Abitur, von Barsy came to Germany shortly after the end of the First World War . He initially worked at the Ertel-Werke in Munich in the field of cinema recording technology and worked as a technical consultant at the Transport Museum in Nuremberg .
Barsy came to film in 1919, where he worked as a cameraman. He specialized in documentaries , especially travel films and cultural films . In doing so, he proved to be an ambitious picture designer who was keen to experiment. He also made feature films only irregularly. At the Venice Film Festival in 1934 he received an award for his camera work in the Dutch feature film Totes Wasser ( Dood water ). He was also one of the numerous cameramen who were available to Leni Riefenstahl and Olympia-Film GmbH for their two-part Olympia .
With Das Bad auf der Tenne (1943) he filmed an elaborate strip during the Nazi era. For the civilization-critical feature film Jonas by Ottomar Domnick , in which Barsy brought post-war buildings, bare corridors, power cables, machines and cars into picture in unusual arrangements, he was awarded the silver film ribbon in 1957.
Von Barsy also wrote for specialist magazines, including Kinotechnik and the Süddeutsche Filmzeitung .
Filmography
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literature
- v. Barsy, Andreas . In: Kurt Mühsam, Egon Jacobsohn: Lexikon des Films . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926, p. 12.
Web links
- Andor of Barsy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Barsy, Andor from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1964 |
| Place of death | Munich |