Marius Holdt

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marius Nissen Holdt (born December 9, 1877 in Kolding , Denmark ; † September 27, 1974 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish cameraman for German silent films and cameraman, producer and director for Danish sound films .

Live and act

Little is known about Holdt's career at the moment. Before he came to film, he received an education in photography. Holdt can be traced in Germany immediately after the end of the First World War . From 1919 to 1929 he photographed a number of less important films by various B-film directors such as Willy Zeyn senior , Rolf Randolf , Wolfgang Neff , Siegfried Philippi , Leo Lasko and Adolf Sportwetten . His most elaborate work was the history strip Die Hermannschlacht , shot in 1922 and published two years later , his most ambitious one of the anti-war film Nameless Heroes , the striking debut work of Kurt Bernhardt . In 1926/27 Holdt stayed for some film assignments in the Soviet Union . With the end of the silent film era in Germany (1929) Marius Holdt received no more commissions and then returned to Denmark.

From the mid-1930s onwards, Marius Holdt was behind the camera on a few documentaries, animation and feature films and also made one or two productions with his own production company, Daku-Film, which specializes in specialty and animated photography. In 1935 Holdt produced and photographed the documentary Storbyens symfoni, which was made for tourism and advertising purposes, and the following year the film revue Cirkusrevyen . In 1941, during the German occupation, he provided the trick photography for the animated Brothers Grimm fairy tale Den tapre skrædder ( The brave little tailor ). In the fall of 1943, Holdt took care of the animation for the cartoon Fyrtøjet . The 72-year-old delivered his last work in 1950 with his production and camera work for the three-minute color animated film Grævlingen og harerne .

Filmography

as a cameraman unless otherwise stated

  • 1919: The players
  • 1919: The struggle for marriage, two parts
  • 1919: Trash literature
  • 1921: Countess Vera
  • 1921: morass
  • 1921: raid
  • 1922: The Woman King
  • 1922: Bummellotte
  • 1922: On the outskirts of the big city
  • 1923: When men judge
  • 1923: The violinist king
  • 1924: The Hermann Battle
  • 1924: Colibri
  • 1924: Playing with fate
  • 1924: The woman in temptation
  • 1924: Nameless heroes
  • 1925: People by the sea
  • 1925: love of artists
  • 1926: Спартак
  • 1926: Митя
  • 1926: Гамбург
  • 1927: Цемент
  • 1927: Непобедимые
  • 1928: Sixteen daughters and no papa
  • 1928: The fate of the Habsburgs
  • 1929: Once at midnight
  • 1935: Broen over Lillebælt (short documentary film)
  • 1935: Lillebæltsbroen (also production and direction)
  • 1936: Cirkus-Revyen
  • 1936: Sol over Denmark
  • 1938: Bornholm - Danmarks Solskinsø (documentary short film, also production)
  • 1941: Amager bliver større (documentary short film, also production)
  • 1941: The tapre skrædder
  • 1943: Fyrtøjet (premiere: 1946)
  • 1948: Rømødæmningen (documentary short film)
  • 1950: Grævlingen og harerne (documentary short film, also production and editing)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Holdt, Marius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holdt, Marius Nissen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish cameraman, film producer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolding , Denmark
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1974
Place of death Copenhagen