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Emeric Pressburger Films
After fleeing to England to escape the Nazis, Pressburger joined a group of Hungarian filmmakers where he met Powell who was assisting with a project. The pair were total opposites in terms of background and personality yet they found common ground in their approach to film-making. Referring to themselves as The Archers, they made 19 feature fil... show more > Recommended Films directed by Emeric Pressburger
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 A Canterbury Tale1944, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Four people uprooted by the war are drawn towards Canterbury and discover what they couldn't find in peacetime. A suggestive and profound study of Englishness that draws from a number of sources, not least Chaucer. There are strange depths to this... £5.99 RRP: £6.99
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 The Red Shoes (Restoration Edition)1948, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) hires up-and-coming ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) and talented young composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) to work with him on a new ballet, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderse... £8.99 RRP: £15.99
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Black Narcissus1947, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Powell and Pressburger added to their run of daring and stylistic pictures with this melodrama about a group of Anglican nuns establishing a remote mission high in the Himalayas. Their physical environment, the extreme temperature, illness and a y... £7.99 RRP: £19.99
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A Matter of Life and Death1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD A World war II airman, shot down but accidentally missed by Death, falls in love while his right to live is debated in a heavenly courtroom. Stunning in its set design and fertile visual imagination, Powell and Pressburger's audacious romantic fan... £5.99 RRP: £19.99
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 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Special Edition)1943, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Acclaimed as one of Powell and Pressburger's greatest achievements, this delightful film, with much generosity of spirit, portrays the life of Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), a stuffy British soldier whose life is shown in episodes from the Boer War ... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
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 I Know Where I'm Going1945, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD One of Powell & Pressburger's most delightful films, this was a surprising omission from the BFIs recent list of the 100 greatest British films. Masquerading as a simple romantic comedy, the film strikes a powerful blow against post-war modernism,... £5.99 RRP: £9.99
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 Ill Met By Moonlight1957, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Powell & Pressburger's final film is set in Nazi-occupied Crete, with British officers, aided by local patriots, given the job of kidnapping the German commander-in-chief. £5.99 RRP: £9.99
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The Small Back Room1949, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Embittered after losing a foot in a bomb blast, bomb disposal expert Sammy Rice increasingly seeks solace in drink. However, a budding romance with his secretary, Susan (Kathleen Byron), and the challenge of analysing a new German bomb provide him... £7.99 RRP: £15.99
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One of Our Aircraft is Missing1941, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Forced to bail out over the Low Countries, an RAF bomber crew fall prey to suspicion and paranoia as they try to make their way back to England. The recreation of the aviation operation during the first half hour still looks remarkably authentic. £5.99 RRP: £9.99
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The Powell and Pressburger Collection1943-66, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Eleven of the very best films from the directorial partnership. Features The Tales of Hoffman (1951), Black Narcissus (1946), A Matter of Life & Death (1946), The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I a... £26.99 RRP: £59.99
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 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Matter of Life and Death1943, 1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Two of the Directors' finest films. £7.99 RRP: £12.99
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 The Battle of the River Plate1956, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee. Powell and Pressburger's final directorial collaboration as The Archers may lack the heady visuals and exotic romanticism of their best work, but still emerges as an even handed, intelligent and gripping wartime story... £5.99 RRP: £12.99
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 The Red Shoes: Restoration Edition (Blu-ray)1948, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Blu-ray Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) hires up-and-coming ballerina Victoria Page (Moira Shearer) and talented young composer Julian Craster (Marius Goring) to work with him on a new ballet, an adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderse... £11.99 RRP: £19.99
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