Andrew Mollo

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Andrew Mollo (born May 15, 1940 in Epsom , Surrey , Great Britain ) is a British military historian , author , production designer and film producer and director .

Life

Andrew Mollo was born to Russian and English parents and moved with the family from Farnham , Surrey, to London in 1956 , where he studied at Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster ).

From 1957 to 1964 he wrote, produced and directed the film It Happened Here with Kevin Brownlow . It Happened Here depicts a Great Britain occupied by German troops during World War II . Mollo's area of ​​responsibility was primarily to research German military uniforms in order to give the film, made with documentary stylistic devices , the greatest possible authenticity. For Kevin Brownlow's film Winstanley (1976) he worked again as a co-writer, producer and director.

Mollo is the author of a number of books on the subject of 20th century military uniforms and has been consulted frequently as a military history advisor for feature film productions, including The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Pianist (2002), and The Downfall (2004). In the 1980s and 1990s, he was also repeatedly commissioned to design the scenery for television productions, including the series The Snipers .

His older brother is the military historian and costume designer John Mollo (1931–2017).

Filmography (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Andrew Mollo: Army Uniforms of World War 1. Arco Publishing, New York 1978
  • Anton Schalito, Andrew Mollo, Ilya Savchenko: The Red Army. Uniforms in color. Enforcer, 1995, ISBN 978-3939700326
  • Andrew Mollo: The Armed Forces of World War II. Little, Brown & Company, 2002, ISBN 978-0316858977

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kevin Brownlow: How It Happened Here. UKA Press, London / Amsterdam / Shizuoka 2007, ISBN 978-1-905796-10-6 , p. 201.
personal data
SURNAME Mollo, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British military historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Epsom , Surrey , UK