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.

Early films

Michael Powell was already an experienced director when he made the WWI drama The Spy in Black (1939), his first film for Hungarian émigré producer Alexander Korda. Emeric Pressburger, who had come over from Hungary in 1935, already worked for Korda, and was asked to do some rewrites for the film. The collaboration would be the first of 19, most of which would be made over the next 18 years.

Related Topics:
WWI - The Spy in Black - 1939 - Alexander Korda - Hungary

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After Powell had made two further films for Korda, he was reunited with Pressburger for Contraband (1940). It was the first in a run of Powell & Pressburger films set during the current war. The second was Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941), which won Pressburger an Academy Award for Best Story. Both are Hitchcock-like thrillers made as anti-German propaganda.

Related Topics:
Contraband - 1940 - Current war - Forty-Ninth Parallel - 1941 - Academy Award - Hitchcock - Propaganda

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