Powell and Pressburger

Powell and Pressburger were a British film-making partnership of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as The Archers. They made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. They are now regarded as two of the most significant figures in British cinema.

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British - Michael Powell - Emeric Pressburger - 1940s - 1950s - British cinema

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Their collaborations were mainly written by Pressburger, with Powell directing. Unusually, the pair shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films.

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:"He knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it — and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life." – Pressburger on Powell

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:"He'd stood the story on its head, he'd turned a man into a woman and a woman into a man, he'd altered the suspense, he'd rewritten the end... I was rejoicing that I was going to be working with someone like this." – Powell on first meeting Pressburger

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