Biography
Carl Junghans (1897, Dresden – 1984, Munich), German director, was a movie theater pianist at the tender age of 12. At 20 he volunteered for the front, returning wounded to his hometown of Dresden. He made a living at a wide variety of jobs, becoming a journalist and dramaturge for the theater, but he eventually worked his way up to revered film editor.
In 1925 he wrote the script for a social drama set among the proletariat, the tragic story of a laundress and her brutal husband, but he couldn't find a producer, not even in the leftist circles of which he was a part. In the end, Czech filmmakers helped him shoot the silent film Such Is Life during the advent of the sound era. Junghans was later active as a screenwriter, editor, and director. In 1939 he fled the Nazis through Paris to the United States where he worked as a photographer. He returned to Germany in 1963, settled in Munich, and was highly creative even as a retiree.
MFF Karlovy Vary
Screenwriter
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1935 |
...and Life Goes On... |
Durch die Wüste |
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Trouble Backstairs |
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1932 |
Fliehende Schatten |
1929 |
Such Is Life |
Documentaries | |
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1938 |
Die große Zeit |
1937 |
Die Geißel der Welt |
1928 |
Rote Pfingsten |
Was wollen die Kommunisten? |
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Weltwende. Zehn Jahre Republik-Zehn Jahre Sowjetunion |
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1927 |
Lenin 1905-28/Der Weg zum Siege |
Director
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1946 |
Monuments of the Past |
1938 |
An Old Heart Leaves on a Voyage |
1935 |
...and Life Goes On... |
1932 |
Fliehende Schatten |
1929 |
Such Is Life |
Editor
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1929 |
Such Is Life |
Documentaries | |
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1937 |
Die Geißel der Welt |
1928 |
Rote Pfingsten |
Was wollen die Kommunisten? |
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Weltwende. Zehn Jahre Republik-Zehn Jahre Sowjetunion |
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1927 |
Lenin 1905-28/Der Weg zum Siege |
Producer
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1929 |
Such Is Life |
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1928 |
Rote Pfingsten |
Was wollen die Kommunisten? |
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Weltwende. Zehn Jahre Republik-Zehn Jahre Sowjetunion |
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1927 |
Lenin 1905-28/Der Weg zum Siege |
Actor
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1978 |
Carl Junghans über sich selbst und seine Filme (TV movie) |
Cinematographer
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1939 |
Jahre der Entscheidung |