Eugen Illés
cinematographer, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Jenõ Illés
- Born:
- 1877-01-28, Debrecen, Hungary
- Died:
- 1951-10-17, Budapest, Hungary
- Professions:
- cinematographer, director, writer
Biography
German director of Hungarian origin, cameraman, author and mechanical engineer. He got a degree in Liberal Arts in Budapest, then in Mechanical Engineering in Berlin. From 1905 to 1939, he lived and worked in Berlin. He published several novels. In 1906, he was the contributor of the Berliner Tageblatt; in 1908, managing director of a cinema; and from 1911, leading director of the Berlin department of Pathé. In the framework of his own enterprise, he dealt with the sale of Hungarian films in Germany. The success of some 120 German film production is associated with his name. He produced 9 films in Hungary between May 1915 and February 1917. During World War I, he shot several thousand meters of documentary material. His oeuvre is mostly known and significant in the silent era and in German language areas. He returned to Hungary in 1919.
