Emeric Pressburger

Emeric Pressburger was born on Dec 05, 1902 in Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. Emeric Pressburger's big-screen debut came with Abschied directed by Robert Siodmak in 1930. Emeric Pressburger is known for Hour of Glory directed by Michael Powell, David Farrar stars as Sammy Rice and Kathleen Byron as Susan. Emeric Pressburger has got 8 awards and 12 nominations so far. The most recent award Emeric Pressburger achieved is London Critics Circle Film Awards. The upcoming new movie Emeric Pressburger plays is Abschied which will be released on Feb 16, 1985.

Educated at the Universities of Prague and Stuttgart, Emeric Pressburger worked as a journalist in Hungary and Germany and an author and scriptwriter in Berlin and Paris. He was a Hungarian Jew, chased around Europe (he worked on films for UFA in Berlin and Paris) before World War II, finally finding sanctuary in London--but as a scriptwriter who didn't speak English. So he taught himself to understand not only the finer nuances of the language but also of the British people. A few lucky breaks and introductions via old friends led to his meeting with "renegade" director Michael Powell. They then went on to make some of the most interesting (IMHO) and complex films of the 1940s and 1950s under the banner of "The Archers". Pressburger often showed a deep understanding of the British only granted to those "outside, looking in". He always prided himself on being "more English than the English". After all, some of us were just BORN English, but he CHOSE to become English. He spent his last days at Shoemakers Cottage, Aspall, Stowmarket, Suffolk in the English countryside that he loved so well.