Curt Courant

Curt Courant (1899–1968) was a German cinematographer who worked on over a hundred films during the silent and early sound eras. Courant worked in several European countries, collaborating with figures such as Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang. As he was of Jewish ancestry, Courant was forced to leave Germany in 1933 and go into exile following the Nazi takeover of power. Courant worked at several of the leading British studios during the mid-1930s. He is the father of Willy Kurant who also became a cinematographer.

Selected filmography

• The Stranger from Alster Street (1921)
• A Day on Mars (1921)
• Peter the Great (1922)
• Quo Vadis (1924)
• Fire of Love (1925)
• The Brothers Schellenberg (1926)
• The Flight in the Night (1926)
• The Wooing of Eve (1926)
• Family Gathering in the House of Prellstein (1927)
• The Trial of Donald Westhof (1927)
• Secrets of the Orient (1928)
• Woman in the Moon (1929)
• The Woman One Longs For (1929)
• The Burning Heart (1929)
• The Singing City (1930)
• The King of Paris (1930, German)
• The King of Paris (1930, French)
• The White Devil (1930)
• City of Song (1931)
• My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
• The Man Who Murdered (1931)
• Who Takes Love Seriously? (1931)
• Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen (1932)
• Scampolo (1932)
• Thea Roland (1932)
• Ciboulette (1933)
• Perfect Understanding (1933)
• I Marry My Wife (1934)
• The Iron Duke (1934)
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
• Amok (1934)
• The Higher Command (1935)
• Me and Marlborough (1935)
• The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)
• She Knew What She Wanted (1936)
• Man in the Mirror (1936)
• Broken Blossoms (1936)
• Spy of Napoleon (1936)
• Cheer Up (1936)
• Dusty Ermine (1936)
• The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937)
• Clothes and the Woman (1937)
• Princess Tarakanova (1938)
• La Bête Humaine (1938)
• Le Jour Se Lève (1939)
• Louise (1939)
• Sarajevo (1940)
• Monsieur Verdoux (1947) uncredited
• It Happened in Athens (1962)

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Curt Courant at the Internet Movie Database