Richard Angst
| Richard Angst | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 July 1905 Zurich, Switzerland |
| Died |
24 July 1984 West Berlin, West Germany |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Years active | 1927-1969 |
Richard Angst (1905–1984) was a Swiss cinematographer who worked on more than ninety films during his career, most of them in Germany. Angst emerged as a leading photographer of mountain films during the silent era. He often worked with the director Arnold Fanck, and accompanied him in 1937 for The New Earth his troubled 1937 co-production with Japan.[1] While he worked on some Nazi propaganda films such as My Life for Ireland, many of the films he was employed on during the era were less political.[2]
After the Second World War, he worked regularly in German commercial cinema often at CCC Film. He was the cinematographer for Fritz Lang's The Indian Tomb and The Tiger of Eschnapur (both 1959).
Selected filmography
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
- White Ecstasy (1931)
- S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- White Majesty (1934)
- Demon of the Himalayas (1935)
- Kleine Scheidegg (1937)
- My Life for Ireland (1941)
- Rembrandt (1942)
- Melody of a Great City (1943)
- Gabriele Dambrone (1943)
- A Kingdom For a Horse (1949)
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1950)
- Storm Over Tibet (1952)
- Cuba Cabana (1952)
- Hocuspocus (1953)
- Three Men in the Snow (1955)
- The Last Man (1955)
- I Often Think of Piroschka (1955)
- The Spessart Inn (1958)
- The Good Soldier Schweik (1960)
- The Strange Countess (1961)
- Via Mala (1961)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
- The Black Abbot (1963)
- The Dirty Game (1965)
References
Bibliography
- High, Peter B. The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
- Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. The A to Z of German Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.