Eugen Schüfftan

Nascimento : 1893-07-21, Breslau, Silesia, Germany [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Morte : 1977-09-06

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eugen Schüfftan (21 July 1893, Breslau, Silesia, Germany, now Wroclaw, Poland – 6 September 1977, New York City) was a German Jewish cinematographer. He invented the Schüfftan process, a special effects technique that employed mirrors to insert actors into miniature sets. One of the first uses of the process was for Metropolis (1927), directed by Fritz Lang. The technique was widely used throughout the first half of the 20th century until it was supplanted by the travelling matte and bluescreen techniques. Schüfftan won the 1962 Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White for his work on the film The Hustler.

Filmes

Chappaqua
Camera Operator
Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.
The Doctor Speaks Out
Director of Photography
A serious Swiss melodrama/documentary about abortion, marketed as a sexy exploitation movie in the US. The film contains real medical footage.
Three Rooms in Manhattan
Director of Photography
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
The Big Scare
Director of Photography
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
Lilith
Director of Photography
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
The Virgins
Cinematography
The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
Quando a Vida é Cruel
Director of Photography
Uma jovem vítima de estupro tenta desesperadamente juntar os pedaços de sua vida, apenas para depois se ver à mercê de um pretenso salvador. Mary Ann Robinson, uma jovem mulher morando no Bronx, Nova York, com sua mãe neurótica e dominadora e seu gentil mas ineficaz padrasto, é estuprada enquanto caminhava para casa uma noite. Guardando o ataque para si mesma, Mary Ann foge, procurando perder-se em Manhattan, alugando um apartamento miserável e tendo um emprego em uma loja de produtos de dez centavos. Abatida pela hostilidade das pessoas e seu próprio desespero, Mary Ann tenta pular da Ponte de Manhattan, apenas para ser impedida por Mike, um mecânico de garagem que a leva para seu modesto apartamento num porão próximo. No início apreciou a bondade de Mike, mas Mary Ann fica aterrorizada quando ele se recusa a deixá-la ir. Mike é realmente o salvador de Mary Ann - ou ele é apenas outro estuprador?
Desafio à Corrupção
Director of Photography
Um jogador de bilhar joga contra um campeão em um único jogo de alto risco.
Os Olhos Sem Rosto
Director of Photography
Uma garota sofreu um acidente que acabou a deixando sem face, sobrando apenas os olhos intactos. Seu pai, um renomado cirurgião especialista em transplantes, está determinado a fazer qualquer coisa para lhe dar um novo rosto.
Head Against the Wall
Director of Photography
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
The Bloody Brood
Director of Photography
Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence.
The First Night
Director of Photography
A residential area schoolboy discovers the odd universe of the Parisian metro. At one point, he glimpses the beautiful face of a blond-haired girl. Later on, he falls asleep and possibly dreams his first love dream…
Una parigina a Roma
Director of Photography
Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
Ulysses
Special Effects
Esta obra cinematográfica é baseada no histórico documento narrativo “A Odisséia”, escrito por Homero. Aqui Ulysses (Kirk Douglas) realiza, após 10 anos de guerra na batalha por Tróia, a uma jornada por terra e mar para tentar voltar para casa, em Ítaca, e para sua esposa Penélope (Silvana Mangano), depois de ter perdido da frota de navios durante uma tempestade. Em sua Odisséia, ele percorre mares e caminhos desconhecidos, enfrentando batalhas contra o gigantesco ciclope Polifemo, soldados, encarando a fúria e as mentiras dos deuses na figura de Poseidon, e derramando seu sangue e suor para tentar permanecer vivo, mesmo já tendo perdido todos os seus companheiros. Até que finalmente, após 20 anos de luta, em sua terra natal, ele enfrente o último e mais perigoso desafio…
The Venus of Tivoli
Cinematography
Unemployed and homeless actors following the dream of finding the future in South America. The manager Osvaldo Curtis tricks the group of colorful and failed artists to apply for a special visa overseas.
Mina de Vanghel
Director of Photography
A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide.
The Crimson Curtain
Director of Photography
A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.
The Respectful Prostitute
Director of Photography
Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...
Gunman in the Streets
Director of Photography
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
Women in the Night
Set Decoration
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Women in the Night
Art Direction
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
Women in the Night
Director of Photography
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
The Strange Woman
Producer
Isaiah, a 19th-century businessman, has his eye on the beautiful and very young Jenny. Finally of age, she accepts his marriage proposal, but their love affair quickly turns sour. Ephraim, Isaiah's college-age son, comes for a visit, immediately striking up a chemistry with Jenny. She promises marriage -- if he murders his father first. But Jenny also swoons for John, the fiancé of her best friend, Meg.
Espelho d'Alma
Visual Effects
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
A Scandal in Paris
Production Supervisor
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
A Scandal in Paris
Director of Photography
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
Club Havana
Director of Photography
A doctor answers a suicide call in a Latin nightclub.
Bluebeard
Production Design
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
Bluebeard
Director of Photography
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
Summer Storm
Director of Photography
It's a tale of power and passions when a Russian siren, who wants the finer things in life, sinks her hooks into a judge, a decadent aristocrat and an estate superintendent, with surprising results.
It Happened Tomorrow
Technical Supervisor
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
It Happened Tomorrow
Director of Photography
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
Uma Voz na Tormenta
Technical Advisor
Former concert pianist, victim of Nazi torture, pursues a confused, melancholic existence on the island of Guadalupe.
O Capanga de Hitler
Director of Photography
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
There's No Tomorrow
Director of Photography
Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.
The Emigrant
Director of Photography
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
The Shanghai Drama
Director of Photography
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
Cais das Sombras
Director of Photography
Um desertor do exército colonial se apaixona por uma jovem, mas uma tragédia pode separá-los.
Hatred
Director of Photography
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Forfaiture
Cinematography
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money ont eh roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
Bizarre, Bizarre
Director of Photography
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin - an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Yoshiwara
Director of Photography
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Street of Shadows
Director of Photography
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
The Trouble with Money
Director of Photography
Respected banker Karel Brand is seen as a marketable emblem of probity. When he loses 350,000 guilders, his reputation is tarnished – without the respect attached to it, he loses his job. Brand becomes unemployable, and his creditors suddenly start calling in their debts. His young daughter Willy suffers the same fate.
The Tender Enemy
Director of Photography
Annette, uma mulher calculista, organiza uma festa de noivado para a filha. O amor verdadeiro fica em segundo plano, sendo que a principal razão para o noivado é o dinheiro. Porém, os fantasmas do marido e do amante da mãe comparecem à festa para tentar salvar a jovem de um futuro sem amor.
The Invader
Director of Photography
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
The Slump Is Over
Director of Photography
A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
Le Scandale
Director of Photography
A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
High and Low
Cinematography
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.
Unsichtbare Gegner
Director of Photography
The Oil Sharks
Director of Photography
The plot revolves around an oil swindle in a South American country.
L'Atlantide
Director of Photography
Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really been saved-- Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she's done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
Into the Blue
Director
A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free, hopeful... and completely broke.
I'd Rather Have Cod Liver Oil
Director of Photography
Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his prayer.
The Scoundrel
Director
The Scoundrel
Director of Photography
Popular tune
Cinematography
Film by Lupu Pick.
Farewell
Director of Photography
Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.
People on Sunday
Director of Photography
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Napoleão
Special Effects
Este filme biográfico épico de Napoleão abrange muitas das experiências que moldaram o rápido avanço do líder francês. Desde seus dias de escola até seu voo da Córsega, bem como a Revolução Francesa e o terror, culminando na sua invasão triunfante da Itália em 1797.
Napoleão
Visual Effects Supervisor
Este filme biográfico épico de Napoleão abrange muitas das experiências que moldaram o rápido avanço do líder francês. Desde seus dias de escola até seu voo da Córsega, bem como a Revolução Francesa e o terror, culminando na sua invasão triunfante da Itália em 1797.
Metrópolis
Visual Effects
O futuro ė distante e o mundo está sob o comando dos poderosos, que isolaram os mais pobres no subsolo como se fossem seus escravos, para que trabalhassem em prol dos mesmos. Comandados por Freder Fredersen, os operários são obrigados a trabalharem sem parar para que a cidade não pare.
Manon Lescaut
Additional Photography
A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution.