Alfred Junge
Nacimiento : 1886-01-29, Görlitz, Silesia [now Saxony], Germany
Muerte : 1964-07-16
Historia
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Alfred Junge (29 January 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germany – 16 July 1964, London) was a German-born production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry.
Junge had wanted to be an artist from childhood. Dabbling in theatre in his teenage years, he joined the Görlitz Stadttheater at eighteen and was involved in all areas of production. He worked in the theatre for over fifteen years. Junge began his career in film at Berlin's UFA studios, working there as an art director from 1920 until 1926, when he joined the production team of director E.A. Dupont who was relocating to British International Pictures. He remained with BIP at Elstree Studios until 1930 when he returned briefly to the continent to work in Germany and then in France with Marcel Pagnol. From 1932 he remained in Britain.
Michael Balcon placed him in charge of the new Gaumont British art department where his organisational skills as well as talent came into their own, running a large staff of art directors and craftsmen who worked on any number of films at one time. After beimg Gaumont Britain's first real supervising art director, he moved to MGM-British where he continued until the outbreak of the Second World War. After a brief spell spent interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man, Junge returned to London where he began work on King Vidor's The Citadel (1938). In 1939, he worked with Powell and Pressburger on Contraband, the first of eight pictures he made with the partnership.
The last of these was Black Narcissus (1947); his designs for the Himalayas-set film earned Junge the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. He received a second nomination for the Arthurian epic Knights of the Round Table (1954). He was the first film production designer to have one of his pictures hung in the Royal Academy in London. This was a sketch of The Road to Estaminet du Pont which he created in preparation for his work on The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943).
Production Design
Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Antes de que los EE.UU. entraran en la contienda (1917), un periodista americano se alistó como voluntario en el Cuerpo de Ambulancias italiano para poder seguir de cerca el desarrollo del conflicto. Segunda adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Hemingway. La primera la dirigió Frank Borzage en 1932. (FILMAFFINITY)
Art Direction
Tres historias completamente diferentes se cuentan a través del baile.
Set Dresser
España, Reinado de Felipe II (1559-1598). Al quedarse viuda, Doña Ana de Mendoza vive apartada de la vida de la Corte de Madrid. Sin embargo, por razones de estado, el propio Rey, buen amigo de Ana, le pide que vuelve a la Corte e interceda por uno de sus hombres de confianza. Cuando llega, conoce a Antonio Pérez, secretario del Rey y hombre de gran influencia política, que vivía entre intrigas palaciegas y bellas cortesanas. A pesar de la inicial animadversión de Ana hacia él, ambos se enamoran locamente, pero la traición de Pérez a la Corona les causará a ambos graves problemas políticos.
Production Design
España, Reinado de Felipe II (1559-1598). Al quedarse viuda, Doña Ana de Mendoza vive apartada de la vida de la Corte de Madrid. Sin embargo, por razones de estado, el propio Rey, buen amigo de Ana, le pide que vuelve a la Corte e interceda por uno de sus hombres de confianza. Cuando llega, conoce a Antonio Pérez, secretario del Rey y hombre de gran influencia política, que vivía entre intrigas palaciegas y bellas cortesanas. A pesar de la inicial animadversión de Ana hacia él, ambos se enamoran locamente, pero la traición de Pérez a la Corona les causará a ambos graves problemas políticos.
Art Direction
Durante el XIX, en Inglaterra el elegante "dandy" Beau Brummell se convierte en el hombre de confianza del Príncipe de Gales. Cuando se descubre una conspiración contra Jorge III, tendrá que abandonar su placentera vida y actuar en consecuencia.
Art Direction
Después de una dura guerra, el rey Arturo, con la ayuda de Lanzarote, su caballero más fiel, consigue unificar toda Inglaterra bajo su mando. Después de ser derrotado por Arturo, Sir Mordred descubre la relación entre Ginebra, la esposa del rey, y Lanzarote, y se servirá de este hecho para acabar con el reinado de Arturo.
Art Direction
Durante un safari en África, un cazador profesional (Gable) se encuentra dividido entre una recién casada, rubia y de apariencia gélida (Kelly), y una volcánica morena de turbio pasado (Gardner). Victor Marswell se dedica a la caza de animales salvajes para venderlos a los zoológicos de todo el mundo. Los Nordley, una pareja de recién casados, llegan al campamento buscando la ayuda de Marswell para filmar un documental sobre los gorilas.
Art Direction
Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un corresponsal americano en Moscú se casa con una bailarina de ballet. Posteriormente es expulsado del país y no tiene más remedio que abandonarla. Hará todo lo que esté en su mano para recuperarla.
Art Direction
La trama cuenta cómo un ex militar experto en explosivos es solicitado por la policía para desactivar una bomba colocada por un terrorista en un tren de municiones.
Art Direction
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Art Direction
A su vuelta de las Cruzadas, el Rey Ricardo Corazón de León es apresado en Austria. Su hermano Juan se niega a pagar la elevada suma de dinero que exigen a cambio de su libertad, ya que así puede seguir usurpando el trono de Inglaterra. El caballero Ivanhoe, uno de los partidarios de Ricardo, intentará por todos los medios conseguir el dinero del rescate.
Art Direction
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Art Direction
Secuela de la famosa cinta "La señora Miniver", en la que se abordan los problemas de una familia inglesa de clase media durante la difícil época de la postguerra.
Art Direction
Un despiadado hombre de negocios vive obsesionado con su hijo Edward, al que sería capaz de proteger a cualquier precio; pero su vástago, lejos de pagarle con la misma moneda, sólo siente hacia su padre odio y desprecio.
Production Design
Un grupo de monjas occidentales abre un hospital en un antiquísimo templo del Himalaya. A las dificultades económicas y a la hostilidad de los nativos, pronto se suman las tensiones entre las propias monjas. Un agente británico intentará mediar entre ellas para solucionar sus problemas, pero su presencia acabará despertando, con consecuencias fatales, la sexualidad reprimida de algunas hermanas.
Production Design
El aviador británico Peter Carter, en su avión en llamas y a punto de estrellarse se enamora de la voz femenina que contesta a su mensaje de socorro. Parece que se ha salvado milagrosamente y encuentra a su interlocutora. Pero un enviado del más allá le notifica que está entre la vida y la muerte y que si quiere sobrevivir, tendrá que defender su caso ante un tribunal celestial. Simultaneamente a esta situación sobrenatural, un equipo de médicos lucha en el quirófano para curar a Peter una lesión en el cerebro.
Production Design
Joan siempre supo lo que quería desde que era una niña. Ahora está a punto de casarse con un millonario, pero las fuerzas de la naturaleza parecerán conspirar para que cambie de idea. (FILMAFFINITY)
Art Direction
Joan siempre supo lo que quería desde que era una niña. Ahora está a punto de casarse con un millonario, pero las fuerzas de la naturaleza parecerán conspirar para que cambie de idea. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Tres "peregrinos" se encuentran durante la guerra cerca de Canterbury e intentan resolver el misterio del "fantasma del pegamento", que ataca a las chicas por la noche. Sus investigaciones los llevan a sospechar del magistrado de la localidad, un acérrimo defensor de los valores tradicionales... (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
World War II propaganda film.
Production Design
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un anciano militar británico rememora su larga y excitante vida. Su larga amistad con un colega alemán o su desobediencia a las ordenanzas para ayudar a una bella compatriota en apuros sólo son dos episodios de una experiencia personal inolvidable. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
Art Direction
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Set Decoration
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Production Design
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Art Direction
La historia se desarrolla entre mediados del siglo XIX y la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). A la escuela de Brookfield llega un joven y tímido profesor que dedica toda su vida a enseñar a varias generaciones de alumnos.
Art Direction
Andrew Manson, un joven médico que consigue su primer empleo en una población minera de Gales, se entrega al cuidado de trabajadores enfermos y gentes oprimidas. Las circunstancias, sin embargo, acabarán poniendo a pruebo sus principios morales.
Art Direction
Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him
Art Direction
Robert Tisdall encuentra en la playa el cuerpo sin vida de una joven. Corre en busca de ayuda, pero dos muchachas lo ven y, creyendo que es el asesino, lo denuncian a la policía. Robert se ve obligado a huir, a pesar de su inocencia. En su desesperado intento de probar que no es el culpable, sólo contará con la ayuda de una chica.
Art Direction
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
Art Direction
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
Art Direction
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Art Direction
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
Art Direction
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
Production Design
Produced by the highly acclaimed Michael Balcon, the story revolves around Robert, the son of the owner of a musical instrument factory. He is in love with Vera, one of the factory workers, who is unaware of his position. So when she jokes one day that she would love a Rolls-Royce, Robert makes sure that she gets one. Then he decides to raise her salary out of all proportion to hint at who he is...
Art Direction
Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.
Art Direction
Bob y Jill Lawrence son un matrimonio que está de vacaciones en Suiza con su hija Betty. Allí entablan amistad con Louis Bernard, un francés que recibe un disparo en el corazón mientras baila con Jill. Justo antes de morir, Louis le pide a Bob que entregue a las autoridades unos documentos que tiene escondidos en su habitación. Bob descubre que Bernard era, en realidad, un espía británico que seguía los pasos de una misteriosa organización que planeaba asesinar a un político extranjero en Londres. A continuación Bob recibe la llamada de un desconocido que le exige que abandone el asunto o su hija sufrirá las consecuencias.
Art Direction
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Art Direction
A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Art Direction
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
Art Direction
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Art Direction
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Art Direction
A tale of two feuding families whose offspring cause uproar when they announce their marital plans.
Art Direction
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
Art Direction
Jim Bronton es un investigador de seguros infeliz que empieza a tener tratos con una banda. Su conciencia empezará a ser un grave problema para ambos.
Art Direction
A group of guests come to stay with the Stoatt family in the seaside town of Eden Bay for Christmas. They soon become involved with an impoverished concert performer whose innocent presence in the house leads to a series of misunderstandings.
Art Direction
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Art Direction
Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
Art Direction
Un coche cama francés que asiste con un ojo para las damas se engancha con una viuda adinerada y se casan. Lo que no sabe es que ella se casó con él porque quiere quedarse en Francia. Sobrevienen complicaciones.
Production Design
An author travels to Vienna, Austria, to do some background research for his new book.
Art Direction
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Art Direction
The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Art Direction
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
Art Direction
The wife of a diplomat in Geneva pretends to be a maid in order to continue her flirting with a handsome young courier.
Production Design
Eight Girls concerns an all-female rowing team with its own club-house. One of the team announces she pregnant and finds herself torn between men (father and fiancé) who want the child aborted and the women who want her to keep it and bring it up at the club. The men win but it's the women you remember, especially the magnificent Hanna, team leader and determined adversary of the world of fathers.
Art Direction
César es el propietario de un café en el puerto de Marsella. Marius, su hijo, es un romántico y está enamorado de Fanny, pero tiene otra gran pasión: sueña con viajar a tierras lejanas, lo que le impide comprometerse con la chica. Para hacerle cambiar de opinión, Fanny coquetea con otro pretendiente, Honoré Panisse.
Art Direction
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
Art Direction
This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
Art Direction
An old Jew is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Art Direction
Notorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas Morland. Not only does Morland's jewels appeal to him, but also his fiancée, Lady Edith Trent. But when Morland acquires the largest diamond in the world in Amsterdam, Brown decides against Edith and for the diamond, takes it and runs away.
Art Direction
Melodrama sobre el mundo del espectáculo, lleno de tensión sexual y racial. La estrella americana de origen chino Anna May Wong alias "Shosho", era una ayudante de cocina en un club de moda de Londres. Su danza exótica y sensual sobre una mesa llama la atención de Wilmot Valentine, el dueño del club, que se obsesiona con ella, provocando los amrgos celos de Mabel, su amante y bailarina estrella del local.
Set Designer
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.
Art Direction
En este melodrama, considerado uno de de los mejores films mudos ingleses, Olga Tschechowa interpreta a una famosa bailarina del legendario Moulin Rouge de París.
Art Direction
Un acróbata deja su familia por una joven, dedicándose a realizar ejercicios de acrobacia con ella en el trapecio. Un día, un famoso trapecista les invita a ambos a unirse a su show de Berlín.
Assistant Art Director
Cuenta la historia de un joven escritor que acepta un anuncio para escribir historias en torno a las figuras que se exponen en un gabinete de estatuas de cera exhibido en una feria. La hija del dueño, muy pronto, queda atraída por el joven empleado...
Production Design
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
Art Direction
A gypsy dancer becomes involved with some smugglers in Spain.
