Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger · Arts & Literature
With Michael Powell created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; Academy Award for 49th Parallel
1902, Miskolc, Hungary — 1988, Saxstead, England, United Kingdom
Hungary · Germany · United Kingdom
Emeric Pressburger is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — With Michael Powell created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; Academy Award for 49th Parallel
Emeric Pressburger was a screenwriter and producer who, with Michael Powell as 'The Archers', made classics of British cinema including 'The Red Shoes' and 'A Matter of Life and Death'; he won an Academy Award for the story of '49th Parallel'. Born into a Hungarian Jewish family, he fled Nazi Europe and settled in Britain.
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With Michael Powell created The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death; Academy Award for 49th Parallel
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