Paul Falkenberg (film editor)

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Paul Victor Falkenberg (born October 26, 1903 in Berlin , Germany , † January 13, 1986 in New York City , United States ) was a German-American film editor and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Falkenberg began his career in silent films . As early as 1924 he is said to have worked as an assistant editor for Fritz Lang's two-part screen classic The Nibelungen . In the middle of the same decade, Falkenberg met the director GW Pabst , for whom he also worked as an assistant. In astray Falkenberg was the first time in 1928 as co-editor with the Editor in charge. Since the end of the 1920s, during the time of upheaval towards talkies , he mainly worked as an assistant director for the Pabst productions The Pandora's Box , Diary of a Lost and Western Front 1918 .

At this time he was also directing short documentaries. In the early 1930s, Falkenberg produced the sound and image editing for Richard Oswald's historical reconstruction in 1914, the last days before the world fire , Lang's crime film classic M and Carl Theodor Dreyer's horror story Vampyr - The Dream of Allan Gray . For the latter film, Falkenberg also served the Dane Dreyer as a German dialogue director.

In the fall of 1932 the Jew Paul Falkenberg left Germany and followed Pabst to Paris , where he edited the Don Quixote film. In Vienna in 1934 he edited two Austrian productions by the Jewish emigrants Fritz Schulz and Erich Morawsky. In Rome , Falkenberg produced the Italian version of an Italian-French historical drama before he emigrated to the USA via the Netherlands in autumn 1938 .

1940/41 Falkenberg was as a technical adviser to the anti-Nazi films The Man I Married and Manhunt committed after they picked him in the film department of the New York Museum of Modern Art . After the war ended in 1945, Falkenberg began making films promoting Palestine as a Jewish immigrant country. These works were produced by Falkenberg's company Educational Documentary Films, mostly in cooperation with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc. This company also produced thematically different documentaries. Falkenberg also directed and wrote some of these works.

In 1960 Paul Falkenberg cut the nudist film Hideout in the Sun under the pseudonym Victor F. Paul , five years later a multi-part TV documentary about Franklin Delano Roosevelt . In 1967 he oversaw the editing of the short documentary Children of the Exodus . It was to be his last work on film.

Filmography

as editor, unless otherwise stated

  • 1928: going astray
  • 1928: Bundestag (director, short documentary film)
  • 1930: The linden landlady
  • 1930: Chaste Joseph
  • 1930: 1914, the last days before the world fire
  • 1930: Schubert's spring dream
  • 1931: M
  • 1931: The great love
  • 1932: Vampyr - The Dream of Allan Gray
  • 1932: The adventures of King Pausole
  • 1933: Don Quixote (Don Quixote)
  • 1934: somersault into bliss
  • 1935: last love
  • 1937: Rival of the Tsarina (Tarakanova)
  • 1938: Farinet - the gentle and the wild freedom (Farinet or the wrong money / Farinet ou l'or de la montagne) (production participation)
  • 1945: Histradut, Builder of a Nation (director, production, screenplay for short documentary)
  • 1945: A Letter from Palestine (also direction, production, screenplay for short documentary film)
  • 1946: Gateway to Freedom (also direction, production, screenplay for short documentary film)
  • 1946: Spain in Exile (also production, screenplay for short documentary film)
  • 1947: Assignment Tel Aviv (also production of short documentaries)
  • 1947: Report on the Living (also direction, production of short documentary film)
  • 1947: Clearing the Way (only short documentary production)
  • 1948: The Future Can be Theirs (also director, production of short documentary film)
  • 1949: Kibbutz Hasorea (short documentary film)
  • 1949: Day of Deliverance (also direction, production of short documentary film)
  • 1949: A State is Born (short documentary)
  • 1949: A Time for Bach (director, production of short documentary film)
  • 1950: Lincoln Speaks at Gettysburg (director, production of short documentary film)
  • 1950: Design for Israel (production, screenplay for short documentary)
  • 1950: A State in Action (short documentary)
  • 1951: Jackson Pollock (director, production of short documentary)
  • 1951: More Than Defense (also direction, production of short documentary film)
  • 1951: A Tuft of Grass (production of short documentary film)
  • 1952: A Hill in Judea: The Story of Neveh Ilan (short documentary)
  • 1953: The Age of Achievement (short documentary)
  • 1953: Window of Jerusalem (also production of short documentary film)
  • 1954: Garden of Eden
  • 1955: Hands of the Builders (also production of short documentaries)
  • 1955: My Hens and I (also production of short documentaries)
  • 1956: Modesta
  • 1957: Exodus (also director, production of short documentary film)
  • 1958: Forsake Me Not (also production for short documentaries)
  • 1960: Hideout in the Sun
  • 1962: Secret Journey: The Story of Today's Immigrant (also director, production of short documentary)
  • 1963: Foothold in the Dessert (short documentary)
  • 1964: At War With the Experts (short documentary)
  • 1965: FDR (TV series)
  • 1966: Willem de Kooning (director of short documentary)
  • 1967: Children of the Exodus (editor for short documentary)

literature

  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than 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. 158.

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personal data
SURNAME Falkenberg, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkenberg, Paul Victor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American film editor and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1986
Place of death New York City , United States