Josef Ambor

Movies

Guinness for You
Director of Photography
As a palette cleanser comes Guinness for You, an artistic promo for a self-evident sponsor that avoids the dry lecture in favour of an entirely wordless, emphatically visual approach.
The Savage Voyage
Camera Operator
A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the development of the benzediazepine range of psychotropic compounds, from librium, twelve years ago, to the latest - nobrium, as treatments for human anxiety.
Time Out of Mind
Cinematography
Brazenly experimental, the film illuminates the debilitating effect of mental illness, imaginatively but discreetly conveying the message of its sponsor (Roche) while showing real insight and sensitivity towards its subjects. Its brutally graphic opening brings mental turmoil sharply into focus.
Six Candles
Cinematography
A day in the life of insurance agent Mr Smith, who will die as a result of a road accident.
Wrong Number
Director of Photography
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
Hazard
Camera Operator
A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.
The Strange World of Planet X
Director of Photography
Near a small English village, a scientific team is conducting experiments with magnetic fields, the results of which may have military applications but the intensification of which seem to be connected to UFO reports, a series of murders, an enormous insect egg, and a strange visitor with exceptional scientific knowledge. Released in USA as THE COSMIC MONSTER.
Blow Your Own Trumpet
Director of Photography
A young lad wants to play cornet and despite the efforts of a rival, wins a competition and a place in the local band by sheer grit and perseverance.
Little Red Monkey
Director of Photography
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
Wide Boy
Director of Photography
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
The Floating Dutchman
Director of Photography
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
The Suffering of the Gray Sister
Director of Photography
Vagabund
Director of Photography
The poacher
Director of Photography