Nicolas Farkas

Nicolas Farkas
Born	27 July 1890 Margitta, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 March 1982 (aged 91) New York, United States
Other names	Miklós Farkas
Occupation	Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Film director

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)
• The Morals of the Alley (1925)
• Dancing Mad (1925)
• Countess Maritza (1925)
• Love in May (1928)
• Kira Kiralina (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

1. Low p.92

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