Karel Degl

Karel Degl , in German productions Karl Degl (born October 19, 1896 in Prague ; † May 19, 1951 ibid), was a Czechoslovak cameraman for domestic and imperial German films as well as a film producer with two excursions to directing films .

Live and act

Degl attended a commercial academy after graduating from high school and was appointed head of the Prague Lucernafilm laboratory in January 1916 , while still in the Habsburg Monarchy . In the two remaining years of the First World War , Karel Degl also gained his first experience as a cameraman for Czech-language feature films. As a result of independence and the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic , Degl and his brother Emanuel founded their own small production company, Bratři Deglové (Degl brothers) in 1919. The company specialized in the production of documentaries and feature films. From 1927 to 1930 the company also published its own weekly film magazine, Degluv žurnál. With the beginning of the sound film age, the company stopped its work and Karel Degl returned to the job of a cameraman.

In the first twenty years of sound film, Karel Degl was behind the camera in an abundance of entertainment films, including several productions by the experienced Czech directors Martin Frič , Josef Rovenský and František Čáp . During the German occupation and annexation of his Czech homeland (1939 to 1945) Degl was also involved in the three less important Reich German productions Little Girls - Big Worries; Love, passion and suffering as well as happiness on the go behind the camera After the liberation from the Nazi yoke Degl continued his work as a cameraman and also joined the national film school FAMU , where he taught as a teacher in all technical and artistic matters.

Filmography

as a cameraman unless otherwise stated

• 1917: Polykarpovo zimní dobrodružství
• 1917: Pražští Adamité
• 1918: Učitel orientálních jazyků
• 1918: Kozlonoh
• 1919: Stavitel chrámu (only production)
• 1919: O devcicu (only co-director)
• 1920: Stavitel chrámu (short film, only co-director)
• 1921: Pomsta moře
• 1925: Syn hor
• 1925: Karel Havlíček Borovský (production only)
• 1926: Na letním bytě (only production)
• 1926: Like a camel through the eye of a needle ( Velbloud uchem jehly ) (also production)
• 1928: Dcery eviny (production only)
• 1928: Hřích (only production)
• 1928: Životem vedla je láska
• 1928: Páter Vojtěch (only production)
• 1928: Podskalák (only production)
• 1929: Hříchy lásky (only production)
• 1929: The Monte Christo of Prague (production only)
• 1929: Ztracená závěť (only production)
• 1930: Vendelínův očistec a ráj (only production)
• 1932: Písničkář
• 1933: Sedmá velmoc
• 1933: Sister Angelika ( Sestra Angelika )
• 1934: Tatranská romance
• 1935: Maryša
• 1936: Manja Valewska
• 1936: Pan
• 1937: Father Kondelik and groom Vejvara (Otec Kondelík a ženich Vejvara)
• 1937: Andula vyhrála
• 1937: Jarčin Professor
• 1939: Ohnivé léto
• 1940: Babička
• 1940: Panna
• 1941: Little girls - big worries
• 1941: Jan Cimbura
• 1942: love, passion and suffering
• 1943: Barbora Hlavsová
• 1943: luck on the road
• 1944: Jarní píseň
• 1944: U pěti veverek
• 1945: Bludná pouť
• 1946: Cesta k barikádám (documentary)
• 1947: Nikola Šuhaj
• 1948: Parohy
• 1948: Dravci
• 1949: Dnes o půl jedácté
• 1949: The Poacher's Stepdaughter or In the Swamp of the Big City (Pytlákova schovanka aneb Šlechetný milionář)
• 1950: Mordová rokle

literature

• International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) (Ed.): International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film. Vol. 4: Germany (from the beginnings to 1945). KG Saur, Munich-New York-London-Paris 1984, p. 68.

Web links

• Karel Degl in the Czechoslovak film database
• Karel Degl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Karel Degl at filmportal.de