Arpad Viragh

Arpad Viragh (born January 11, 1888 in Budapest , † May 31, 1930 in Capri , Italy ) was a Hungarian cameraman who made a career in German film from 1919.

Life

Árpád Virágh, whose Hungarian name is used without accents in Germany, received his photography training at the beginning of the 20th century. He then went to Paris and was hired by the production company Pathé for two years as a cameraman in 1910 . In the early stages of World War I , Viragh began working as chief cameraman in his hometown of Budapest. As a result of the failure of the Soviet Republic , he fled to Germany in 1919, where he initially found work on a number of films by minor production companies. In the next ten years he photographed productions by the directors Dimitri Buchowetzki , EA Dupont , Hanns Schwarz , Karl Grune , Richard Oswald and Paul Czinner and it was these works that made him famous. In 1928/29 he stayed in Great Britain , where he experienced the transition from silent to sound films .

Viragh died at the age of 42 while filming his first sound film The Singing City , of which he also photographed the English-language version City of Song . The cause of death is said to have been poisoned after eating shellfish on Capri that were not fit for human consumption.

Filmography

1915: Az alvajáró 1915: A kormányzó 1916: Ciklámen 1916: Fehér éjszakák 1916: Mágnás Miska 1916: Petőfi-dalciklus 1917: Fekete gyémántok 1918: Szibéria 1918: A kivándorló 1919: Jön a rozson át 1919: Anita Jo 1920: Napoleon and the little laundress 1920: who was it? 1920: Sicilian blood revenge 1920: the last hour 1920: The slow death 1920: The red poster 1921: Danton 1921: Traveling people 1921: The Geierwally 1921: Sappho 1921: The Galilean 1922: sacrifice of women 1922: Lola Montez, the king's dancer 1923: The woman with the millions, three parts 1923: two people

1923: Nanon 1924: Taxless 1924: Orient 1924: The doll queen 1925: Nick, the king of chauffeurs 1925: The bastard 1926: The violinist from Florence 1926: The Watch on the Rhine 1926: When I came back 1926: women of passion 1926: In the white Rößl 1926: The escape into the night 1926: The Sporck hunters 1926: love 1927: The beloved 1927: bigamy 1927: homesickness 1927: Svengali 1927: Queen Luise , two parts 1927: Single mothers 1928: Miss Chauffeur 1928: A woman of stature 1928: Priscilla's journey to happiness 1929: Mr. Smith Wakes Up (short film) 1929: The Unwritten Law 1930: The singing city

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 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 187 f.

Web links

• Arpad Viragh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Arpad Viragh at filmportal.de