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Emeric Pressburger
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: 1902 in Miskolc, Hungary Death: February 5, 1988 in Saxstead, England, UK Biography:The screenwriter half of the "Powell"/Pressburger team in association with "Michael Powell", Hungarian-born "Emeric Pressburger" was a journalist before coming to films as a screenwriter in the late '20s. After working at Germany's UFA studios for several years, he fled after Hitler's rise to power and eventually came to England, where he joined London Films as a screenwriter and began his association with "Michael Powell", a gifted young English filmmaker. The two worked together on "The Spy in Black", and after leaving London Films, formed a filmmaking partnership -- known corporately as The Archers -- in which they shared joint screenwriter-producer-director credit. Their collaborations together included "49th Parallel", "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing", "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", "A Canterbury Tale", "I Know Where I'm Going", Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death), ... Full Biography
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