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Other names
  
Miklos Farkas

Name
  
Nicolas Farkas

Role
  
Cinematographer


Born
  
27 July 1890 (
1890-07-27
)
Margitta, Austria-Hungary

Occupation
  
Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Film director

Died
  
March 22, 1982, New York City, New York, United States

Movies
  
Don Quixote, Berlin‑Alexanderplatz, Samson and Delilah, The Battle, Dancing Mad

Similar People
  
Victor Tourjansky, Charles Boyer, Maurice Tourneur, Tim Whelan, Karl Hartl

Nicolas Farkas (1890–1982) was an Austro-Hungarian-born cinematographer, screenwriter and film director. Farkas was born in Margitta (Marghita), now in Romania, of Hungarian background. He worked in the Austrian, German and French film industries. During the 1920s he collaborated frequently with the producer/director Alexander Korda. During the 1930s he worked on a number of international co-productions, directing films such as the Anglo-French melodrama The Battle. He also worked as cinematographer on G.W. Pabst's 1933 film Adventures of Don Quixote.

Selected filmography

Cinematographer

  • Samson and Delilah (1922)
  • Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
  • The Curse (1924)
  • The Morals of the Alley (1925)
  • Dancing Mad (1925)
  • Countess Maritza (1925)
  • Love in May (1928)
  • Kira Kiralina (1928)
  • The Case of Prosecutor M (1928)
  • The Schorrsiegel Affair (1928)
  • The Three Kings (1928)
  • The Ship of Lost Souls (1929)
  • Crucified Girl (1929)
  • Phantoms of Happiness (1929)
  • The Alley Cat (1929)
  • The White Roses of Ravensberg (1929)
  • Exile to Siberia (1930)
  • Love in the Ring (1930)
  • The Prosecutor Hallers (1930)
  • Gold on the Street (1930)
  • The Right to Love (1930)
  • The Other (1930)
  • Danton (1931)
  • The Firm Gets Married (1931)
  • Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
  • Madame Makes Her Exit (1932)
  • Amourous Adventure (1932)
  • Adventures of Don Quixote (1933)

    • Director

  • The Battle (1934)
  • Variétés (1935)
  • Port Arthur (1936)
  • Port Arthur (1936)

    • Screenwriter

  • Three Maxims (1936)

    • Producer

  • The Patriot (1938)

    • References

    Nicolas Farkas Wikipedia
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