Curt Courant
Curt Courant (born May 11, 1899 in Katowice , † April 20, 1968 in Los Angeles ) was a German-American cameraman and later an expert on film technology matters.
Life
Courant began in 1916 as an assistant in the photochemistry of the May film. At the age of 18 he was already co-chief cameraman at the side of Carl Hoffmann for director Joe May . He mainly shot film dramas , less often comedies, and became one of the most important cameramen in German cinema.
After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he emigrated and British and French films acquired by a number of international fame. When German troops marched into France in 1940, he fled to the USA.
Despite repeated application not he was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), but was of the war entrance of the USA 1941 Special Forces War Department Special Services Division under Frank Capra allocated.
It was only Charles Chaplin who let him work as a co-cameraman with Monsieur Verdoux - The Woman Murderer of Paris . He then worked twice as technical director and most recently in the Jayne Mansfield film It Happened in Athens, which was filmed outside the USA . Courant was considered an expert in indirect light and soft focus effects.
Courants nephew is the Belgian cameraman Willy Kurant .
Filmography
- 1917: A ray of light in the dark
- 1917: The black chauffeur
- 1917: Giovanni's revenge
- 1917: The climate at Vaucourt
- 1917: Hilde Warren and death
- 1917: The onyx button
- 1917: Crows fly around the tower
- 1918: The Caucasian
- 1918: The victim
- 1918: his best friend
- 1918: waves of fate
- 1919: All Souls' Day
- 1919: Loyalty to the artist
- 1919: The bride of the incapacitated
- 1919: The fairy of Saint Ménard
- 1919: The commandment to love
- 1919: The heart of the Casanova
- 1919: The last son of the sun
- 1919: One man's word
- 1919: Black pearls
- 1919: Prosecutor Jordan
- 1919: Storms - The Fate of a Girl
- 1919: The enchanted princess
- 1919: The world champion
- 1919: only one servant
- 1919: The golden lie
- 1919: Wisp
- 1919: The foolish heart
- 1919: The Los Cuerros winery
- 1920: The King of Paris (2 parts)
- 1920: In the vortex of life
- 1920: The girl from Ackerstrasse. 1st chapter
- 1920: Einöd Castle
- 1920: fighting forces or world without war
- 1920: Forbidden love
- 1920: President Barrada
- 1921: Hamlet
- 1921: The girl from Picadilly (2 parts)
- 1921: The Secret of Santa Maria
- 1921: The Silver King (4 parts)
- 1921: The stranger from Elstergasse
- 1921: Alfred von Ingelheim's life drama
- 1921: The Queen of the Alleys
- 1921: A day on Mars
- 1922: the blood
- 1922: The secret of Ronay Castle
- 1922: The high song of love
- 1922: The henpecked hero
- 1922: lowlands
- 1923: Peter the Great
- 1923: Paradise in the snow
- 1924: Quo Vadis?
- 1924: two children
- 1924: Comedians of Life
- 1925: love fire
- 1925: The island of dreams
- 1925: I love you
- 1926: The escape into the night
- 1926: Countess Plättmamsell
- 1926: The world wants to be lied to
- 1926: The little one from the Varieté
- 1926: woe when you let go
- 1926: The journey into adventure
- 1926: The Schellenberg brothers
- 1927: The fight of Donald Westhof
- 1927: The Czardas Princess
- 1927: The dashing Archduke
- 1927: Family day in the Prellstein house
- 1928: Hurray! I live!
- 1928: Secrets of the Orient
- 1928: guilty
- 1929: Woman in the Moon
- 1929: The woman you long for
- 1929: The burning heart
- 1930: The jumping jack / The love machine
- 1930: The singing city
- 1930: The King of Paris
- 1930: the white devil
- 1930: L'homme qui assassina
- 1931: Le chanteur inconnu
- 1931: Son altesse l'amour
- 1931: Who takes love seriously?
- 1931: My cousin from Warsaw
- 1931: Ma cousine de Varsovie
- 1931: The man who committed the murder
- 1931: City of Song
- 1932: Coeur de lilas
- 1932: Rasputin
- 1932: The adventure of Thea Roland
- 1932: L'homme qui ne sait pas dire non
- 1932: Un peu d'amour
- 1932: Scampolo, a street kid
- 1932: They - or none
- 1932: Un fils d'Amérique
- 1932: Gitta discovers her heart
- 1933: His great error (Cette vieille canaille)
- 1933: Midsummer Night
- 1933: I want to teach you love
- 1933: Perfect Understanding
- 1933: Ces messieurs de la santé
- 1933: Ciboulette
- 1934: The Iron Duke
- 1934: I marry my wife
- 1934: Amok
- 1934: The Man Who Knew Too Much (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
- 1934: Le voleur
- 1935: The higher order
- 1935: The Passing of the Third Floor Back
- 1935: Me and Marlborough
- 1936: Spy of Napoleon
- 1936: Dusty Ermine
- 1936: She Knew What She Wanted
- 1936: Broken Blossoms
- 1936: Man in the Mirror
- 1937: The Lie of Nina Petrovna (Le mensonge de Nina Petrovna)
- 1938: Lumières de Paris
- 1938: Fata Morgana of Love (La Maison du Maltais)
- 1938: The Puritan (Le puritain)
- 1938: Beast Human (La bête humaine)
- 1938: Le drame de Shanghai
- 1938: La Principessa Tarakanova
- 1939: Louise
- 1939: Monsieur Brotonneau
- 1939: The day is dawning (Le Jour se lève)
- 1939: Le Corsaire
- 1940: From Mayerling to Sarajevo (De Mayerling à Sarajevo)
- 1947: Monsieur Verdoux - The woman murderer of Paris (Monsieur Verdoux)
- 1962: It Happened in Athens
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than is given ..." Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 128 f.
Web links
- Curt Courant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Curt Courant at filmportal.de
- Biography on film-zeit.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Courant, Curt |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Katowice |
DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1968 |
Place of death | los Angeles |