Josef Wirsching
Josef Wirsching (born March 22, 1903 in Munich , † June 11, 1967 in Bombay ) was a German cameraman who worked in Hindi films from 1934 until his death .
Life
Wirsching came to the Munich film company Emelka in 1923 as an assistant cameraman and filmed the German-Indian co-production The Lamp of Asia for them in 1925 . He was employed by Emelka until the early 1930s and often worked with the cameraman Franz Koch . His only directorial work in 1933 was the film In the Land of the Silver Lion . In 1934 Wirsching went to Bombay with Emelka director Franz Osten to work for the producer Himansu Rai . For his newly founded sound film company, Bombay Talkies , they created films whose technical quality was above the Indian average, and their work influenced Indian filmmakers such as the director and actor Charu Roy . Jawani Ki Hawa (1935) was the Society's first publication. The lighting in Wirsching's film recordings in particular set new standards in Indian film until the 1950s.
With the beginning of the Second World War, Wirsching and Osten were arrested by the British in Bombay and interned in India, and they were banned from working. Unlike Osten, Wirsching continued his work after his dismissal in 1947 in India at Bombay Talkies after the war. In 1949 he made the first Indian horror film with Mahal . Wirsching's depth of field shots here are considered the best of his career. In the 1950s he worked as a documentary and advertising filmmaker in India. Wirsching was back behind the camera for the director of Mahal , Kamal Amrohi , during the long filming of Pakeezah in the 1960s . Wirsching died during the production of Pakeezah . His work was completed by RD Mathur .
Filmography
- 1925: The lamp of Asia (Prem Sanyas)
- 1926: Our Emden
- 1926: Little Inge and her three fathers
- 1927: My Heidelberg, I cannot forget you
- 1928: Travelogue of overland trip from Munich to Benares
- 1928: Travelogue of overland trip from Calcutta to Rangoon
- 1928: Waterloo
- 1929: Tracks in the snow
- 1932: Cruiser Emden
- 1933: The hotel in love
- 1933: In the land of the silver lion
- 1934: raiding party 1917
- 1935: Jawani Ki Hawa
- 1936: Achhut Kanya
- 1936: Janmabhoomi
- 1936: Jeevan Naiya
- 1936: Miya Bibi (Always Tell Your Wife)
- 1937: Izzat
- 1937: Prem Kahani
- 1937: Jeevan Prabhat
- 1937: Savitri
- 1938. Nirmala
- 1938: Vacchan
- 1938: Mamata
- 1939: Navjeevan
- 1939: Durga
- 1939: Kangan
- 1948: Ziddi
- 1949: Mahal
- 1950: Sangram
- 1952: Maa
- 1953: Shamsheer
- 1954: Baad-Baan
- 1960: Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai
- 1971: Pakeezah
- Documentaries of the 1950s
Black-and-white film
- Young Farmers Club
- River Valley Projects, (Documentary on the Bakra Nangal Dam)
- Fishing for food
- Malaria Control
- One thousand hands
- How to grow more Paddy pest control
- Education for Life
- First furrow
- The Mold Board Plow
- Practical seed drills
- The Row cultivator
- Time is money
- Improved Seed
- Our Indian Earth
- Care of the Eyes
- Kora Kendra
- How to have a healthy home (Northern region)
- How to have a healthy home (Southern region)
- How to have a healthy home (Eastern region)
- Village Black Smith-ing
- Village Carpentry
- Black Smith-ing in small towns
- Rehabilitation in polio mellitus (16 mm)
Color film
- Fertilizer Applications
- Fertilizer for Abundance
- Life of the soil
- The story of Trombay, (A Documentary on the TATA Thermal power project in Trombay)
Individual evidence
- ↑ A SHORT SYNOPSIS ON THE LIFE & ACHIEVEMENTS OF JOSEF WIRSCHING (1903-1967). Wirsching Foundation, September 8, 2009, accessed December 23, 2010 .
- ^ Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 314
Web links
- Josef Wirsching in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Josef Wirsching at filmportal.de
- Wirsching Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wirsching, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman for Hindi films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 22, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1967 |
| Place of death | Bombay |