Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger was born in 1902 in Miskolc, in Hungary, into a Jewish family, studied mathematics and engineering in Prague and Stuttgart, and became a screenwriter in Berlin. He left Germany in 1933, passed through Paris and arrived in London in 1935 without speaking English. There he met in 1938, through Alexander Korda, the director with whom he would found a production company, the two men jointly credited with the writing, production and direction of their films. Naturalised British in 1946, he died in 1988.

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• CinemaThe Red ShoesEmeric Pressburger · 1948Cinema