Joseph-Louis Mundwiller

Joseph-Louis Mundwiller , also Joseph-Louis Mundviller and Georges Meyer (born April 10, 1886, Mulhouse , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † July 9, 1967 in Enghien-les-Bains ) was an Alsatian cameraman , a veteran of French and Russian film .

Life

The native of Mülhausen, who often had his name written by Mundviller, began his cinematographic work in 1907 for the French production company Pathé . In the following year he was sent to Russia , where Mundwiller made short films under the pseudonym Georges Meyer until December 1913, which caused a sensation due to their color inserts, and also took pictures for the newsreel . He documented performances by the Bolshoi Ballet and department stores of the Tsarist Empire, showed the first Russian airships (so-called Duks) presented at aviation shows and portrayed members of the first Duma . Mundwiller also filmed the last year of Leo Tolstoy's life until his death in 1910.

When the First World War broke out, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller returned to Paris . It was not until 1919 that he began his regular activity for French cinema, mainly as a cameraman for films by the Russian exile producer Jacques Ermolieff . In 1925, Mundwiller reached his preliminary climax when he was hired by Abel Gance as one of seven cameramen for the monumental epic Napoleon . Disputes between him and Gance meant that this cooperation only lasted one film. Towards the end of the silent film era, Mundwiller had also photographed two of Jean Renoir's secondary works .

In the 1930s, Mundwiller only shot average cinema productions, especially for the clothing manufacturer Pierre Chenal , before he completely retired from work as a cameraman in 1941. Shortly after the liberation of Paris in the summer of 1944, Mundwiller was appointed to the newly established film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) and served it as a teacher for 16 years, until 1960. Then he withdrew into private life. Mundwiller / Mundviller died at the gates of Paris.

Filmography

• 1908: Antoine la première fois à Varsovie
• 1909: Ouchard le marchand
• 1909: Dimitry Donskoy
• 1909: Pierre le grand
• 1910: Khmara
• 1910: Le duel
• 1910: La princesse Tarakanova et Catherine II
• 1910: Les tziganes
• 1911: Anna Karénine
• 1911: Le chaim
• 1911: Le violon
• 1911: Martha Posadnitza
• 1911: André et Nadia
• 1912: Les Mal Adresse de Béta Michka
• 1912: La retraite de Russie
• 1913: Courroux de Czar
• 1913: Les tribulations de Mitiouchka
• 1913: La fiancée du feu
• 1913: La petite Geisha
• 1913: La ligne des blasés de la vie
• 1921: L'ordonnance
• 1921: Arabian Nights (Les contes des mille et une nuits)
• 1922: The mysterious house (La maison du mystère)
• 1922: Marriage Stories (Le brasier ardent)
• 1923: Extinguishing Torch (Kean)
• 1923: Le chant de l'amour triomphant
• 1923: La dame masquée
• 1924: Le lion des mogols
• 1924: The gallant prince (Le prince charming)
• 1925: Les aventures de Robert Macaires
• 1925: La cible
• 1926: Napoleon
• 1927: The chess player (Le joueur d'échecs)
• 1928: La vierge folle
• 1928: Le tournoi dans la cité
• 1929: Le Bled
• 1932: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
• 1933: Chotard et Cie.
• 1933: Paris-Deauville
• 1933: La rue sans nom
• 1934: On a trouvé une femme nue
• 1935: Amants et voleurs
• 1935: Le chemineau
• 1935: Crime and Punishment (Crime et châtiment)
• 1935: Odette
• 1936: Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
• 1936: L'homme de nulle part
• 1936: Paris
• 1937: La bataille silencieuse
• 1938: Paix sur le Rhin
• 1938: Thérèse Martin
• 1939: La famille Duraton
• 1940: Le roi des galéjeurs
• 1941: Opéra-Musette

Web links

• Joseph-Louis Mundwiller in the Internet Movie Database (English)

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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 585 f.