The screenwriter half of the Powell/Pressburger team in association with Michael Powell, Hungarian-born Emeric Pressburger was a journalist before coming to films as a screenwriter in the late ‘20s. After working at Germany’s UFA studios for several years, he fled after Hitler’s rise to power and eventually came to England, where he joined London Films as a screenwriter and began his association with Michael Powell, a gifted young English filmmaker. The two worked together on The Spy in Black, and after leaving London Films, formed a filmmaking partnership, known corporately as The Archers, in which they shared joint screenwriter-producer-director credit. Their collaborations together included 49th Parallel, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I’m Going, Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death), Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, The Small Back Room, and The Tales of Hoffmann, most of which were extremely successful… read more
Yes, very much so but it details how balanced their collaboration was. Great read.
IKWIG Weekend on Mull, 15 - 17 October 2010. Plans are now well advanced for the I Know Where I'm Going! reunion/celebration weekend to celebrate that iconic 1945 film on the island where it was made. Anyhow the weekend is 15th - 17th October and a trip to Corryvreckan is going to be one of the highlights. See http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Events.html#IKWIG-Mull for more details