Nicolas Farkas

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.^[1]

Selected filmography

Cinematographer

• Samson and Delilah (1922)
• Tragedy in the House of Habsburg (1924)
• The Curse (1924)
• Dancing Mad (1925)
• Gräfin Mariza (1925)
• Love in May (1928)
• Kira Kiralina (1928)
• The Schorrsiegel Affair (1928)
• The Three Kings (1928)
• Grischa the Cook (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)
• Berlin-Alexanderplatz (1931)
• Madame Makes Her Exit (1932)
• Amourous Adventure (1932)
• Adventures of Don Quixote (1933)

Director

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

Screenwriter

• Three Maxims (1936)

Producer

• The Patriot (1938)

References

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film: Filmmaking in 1930s Britain. George Allen & Unwin, 1985 .
• Oscherwitz, Dayna & Higgins, MaryEllen. The A to Z of French Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

External links

• Nicolas Farkas at the Internet Movie Database