Robert Krasker
Nascimento : 1913-08-13, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Morte : 1981-08-16
História
Robert Krasker, A.S.C. was a cinematographer, who worked on more than fifty films in his career.
He was born in Perth, Australia and travelled to England in 1932 via photographic studios in Paris and Dresden. He moved to England just before the outbreak of WWII and found work at Korda's London Films, where he became a senior camera operator.
Krasker's work was strongly influenced by film noir and German Expressionism. His most notable films included Uncle Silas (1947), directed by Charles Frank and The Third Man (1949), for which he won an Oscar, and Odd Man Out (1947), both for director Carol Reed, as well as Brief Encounter for David Lean and Another Man's Poison for Irving Rapper. Despite Krasker's brilliant and atmospheric work on Brief Encounter, Lean sacked him from his next film, Great Expectations, because he and Ronald Neame were unhappy with his handling of the marsh scenes. His later films included the epics Alexander the Great, El Cid and The Fall of the Roman Empire.
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A fur trapper takes a mute girl as his unwilling wife to live with him in his remote cabin in the woods.
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A resistência norueguesa tenta sabotar os esforços alemães para produzir um componente da bomba atômica durante a segunda guerra mundial.
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, a Noruega foi ocupada pela Alemanha. Nos claros e profundos fiordes tentavam produzir água "pesada", um componente vital na fabricação de uma bomba atômica. Uma arma que ganharia a guerra pela Alemanha. O Movimento de Resistência Norueguês descobre isso e os aliados são alertados. Mas terão tempo e oportunidade para impedir que o precioso ingrediente seja produzido e usado?
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Freddy, um rapaz solitário, em sua obsessão por uma mulher, aprisiona-a no porão de sua casa. Ele quer criar vínculo afetivo com a moça, demonstrando seu amor por ela e querendo ser correspondido. Mas só o sequestro em si será o primeiro de uma série de obstáculos à reciprocidade desejada por Freddy.
Adaptação do best-seller de John Fowles.
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No auge da expansão geográfica do império romano, o general Lívio (Stephen Boyd) comanda a nova política do imperador Marco Aurélio (Alec Guinness), que quer a pacificação de fronteiras e a adoção para os povos conquistados uma certa autonomia. Mas Marco Aurélio acaba envenenado por Commodus (Christopher Plummer), filho ilegítimo que assume o trono e mergulha Roma no caos político e administrativo, o que dá origem à queda do Império Romano.
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When pilot Rex Black destroys his plane in a crash the day after his insurance policy expires, the insurance company refuses to give him any money. To strike back at the agency, Rex fakes his death, changes his identity, and escapes to Spain, with 50,000 pounds in life insurance money. His wife joins him in Spain, but when an insurance investigator arrives unexpectedly, Rex's paranoia causes him to flee again.
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Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) é um marinheiro inocente e ingênuo da Marinha Britânica em 1797. Quando o sádico mestre de armas do navio é assassinado, Billy é acusado e julgado. O H.M.S. Vingador está indo para a batalha contra a frota francesa durante as Guerras Napoleônicas, e a sombra escura de dois recentes motins na frota inglesa preocupa o capitão Vere (Sir Peter Ustinov). Ele confia em seu cruel e muitas vezes sádico mestre de armas John Claggert (Robert Ryan) para manter o que ele acredita ser ordem e disciplina a bordo do navio. Quando um novo marinheiro, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), é pressionado a prestar serviço, sua atitude inocente e feliz rapidamente conquista seus companheiros e os oficiais. No entanto, isso parece incomodar Claggert, que fica ressentido, especialmente após a promoção de Billy ao posto de Capitão do Cesto de Gávea. Então Claggert planeja injustamente denunciá-lo e, por fim, mente quando acusa Billy de conspirar com motim. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
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Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
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Filme épico sobre o lendário herói espanhol Rodrigo Diaz, "El Cid" para os seus seguidores, que, sem comprometer o seu rigoroso sentido de honra, consegue tomar a iniciativa e expulsar os mouros da Espanha cristã.
A documentary about noted British director Anthony Asquith, including clips from his films and interviews with his colleagues and contemporaries.
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When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
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A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
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Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
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Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
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Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the whole village, including the man he slugged, sympathizing with him. "One Minute's Wait" is about an little train station and glimpses into the lives of the passengers, with a series of comic setups. The third piece is called "1921" and is about a condemned Irish nationalist and his daring escape. Tyrone Power introduces each story.
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Mike Ribble já foi uma vez um grande trapezista, e o único a ter completado um Salto Mortal Triplo, antes de seu acidente. Tino se junta ao circo, e consegue convencer Mike para ensinar-lhe o "Triplo". Enquanto isso Lola, uma acrobata, quer fazer parte do novo número.
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He was a fierce military commander who led huge armies into battle without a single defeat; a magnificent warrior who many believed was part god - this was Alexander the Great (Richard Burton), the legendary Greek hero hailed by his countrymen as "The King of Kings". Born in 356 B.C. into a turbulent world of political unrest, educated by Aristotle (Barry Jones) and chosen to lead his people in the grand tradition of his powerful father (Fredric March), this glamorous world conqueror rose above all conflict to unite the continents of Europe and Asia to become one of the most celebrated rulers of all time! Written, produced and directed by Oscar - winner Robert Rossen and featuring the extraordinary Claire Bloom and a remarkable cast of thousands, this stunning portrait of one of history's most fascinating figures is colossal entertainment and an amazing spectacle.
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In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
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Durante a primavera de 1866, a Itália está ocupada pela Áustria e prepara seu principal movimento de libertação. Em meio ao caos de Veneza, a Condessa Serpieri (Alida Valli), que participa da resistência, começa a nutrir um amor proibido: o tenente autríaco Franz Mahler (Farley Granger).
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In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
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In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
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An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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Uma escritora de mistério se envolve numa emaranhada teia de engano e assassinato, não muito diferente das tramas de seus romances. A escritora de mistério Janet Frobisher vive sozinha numa isolada e obscura casa de campo, isso quando não está paquerando o noivo de sua secretária. Em um momento extremamente embaraçoso, ela recebe um visitante indesejável: George Bates, que afirma ser o parceiro no crime do marido de Janet. George se insinua na casa e na vida de Janet, apesar dos esforços dela para se livrar dele; os relacionamentos emaranhados se transformam em um macabro e assassino jogo de gato e rato.
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In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
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Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
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Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
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Um escritor americano chega na Viena pós segunda guerra e descobre que o amigo que iria encontrá lo foi morto sobre circunstâncias misteriosas. Ao investigar o que de fato aconteceu, ele descobre uma trama que envolve o mercado negro de armas, espionagem internacional e uma sedutora jovem.
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The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown.
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Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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Um líder nacionalista irlandês ferido tenta fugir da polícia após um roubo fracassado em Belfast. Johnny McQueen, líder de uma organização clandestina irlandesa, está se escondendo na casa de Kathleen e sua mãe, planejando um assalto que fornecerá ao seu grupo os fundos necessários para continuar suas atividades. Durante o assalto, as coisas correm mal: Johnny está ferido, não consegue voltar para o esconderijo e desaparece nos becos de Belfast. Imediatamente, é lançada uma caça ao homem em grande escala, e a cidade é rigidamente vigiada pela polícia, cujo chefe pretende capturar Johnny e os outros membros da gangue. Kathleen sai em busca de Johnny. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
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Laura (Celia Johnson) e Alec (Trevor Howard) se conhecem por acaso em uma estação de trem, quando ele remove um cisco do olho dela. Ele é um médico, ela é uma dona de casa. Ambos são de classe média, têm meia-idade e são razoavelmente felizes em seus casamentos. Em pouco tempo passam a se encontrar todas as quintas-feiras, mas apenas como bons amigos. Gradativamente surge uma paixão mútua e eles continuam a se encontrar regularmente, apesar de saberem que este amor é impossível.
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Henrique V (Laurence Olivier) foi o rei da Inglaterra de 1413 até 1422, e se envolveu em um episódio heróico e patriótico. Ele partiu em uma pequena expedição até a França para reivindicar a coroa daquela nação. Só que quando ele chegou a Agingcourt, foi recebido pelo vasto exército francês, que não estava nem um pouco disposto a deixá-lo passar.
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A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
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During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
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Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
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This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he's unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.
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Baseado na obra de H.G. Wells, narra cem anos de história da humanidade, de 1930 até o século XXI. Esse período é atravessado por guerras que duram décadas, uma peste que aniquila metade da população e a reconstrução da civilização em busca do espaço sideral.
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The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
