Alexander Korda

Japanese: コルダ - こるだ(英語表記)Alexander Korda
Alexander Korda

British film director and producer. Born in Pustatar-Perstor, Hungary. His real name was Korda Sándor. After working in the film industries of Austria, Germany, America and France, he founded London Film in England in 1932. His film The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), which he produced and directed, was an international success, and he began making Hollywood-style entertainment blockbusters. Although he later directed other films such as A Painted Life (1936) and A Beautiful Woman (1940), he mainly focused on production, completing films such as The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934), The World to Come (1936), and The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and launched the world into many of the most representative directors and actors in British cinema. After World War II, he revived the once-disbanded London Film Company in 1939 and produced such masterpieces as The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), Supersonic Jet (1952), and Richard III (1955), ushering in a golden age for post-war British cinema.

[Takaharu Miyamoto]

[References] | London Film

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

イギリスの映画監督、製作者。ハンガリーのプスタトゥールパーストー生まれ。本名コルダ・シャーンドルKorda Sándor。オーストリア・ドイツ・アメリカ・フランスの映画界を経て、1932年、イギリスでロンドン・フィルムを設立。自ら製作・監督した『ヘンリー八世の私生活』(1933)が国際的に成功し、ハリウッド流の娯楽大作作りに乗り出す。その後は、『描かれた人生』(1936)、『美女ありき』(1940)といった監督作もあるものの、おもに製作に専念、『紅はこべ』(1934)、『来るべき世界』(1936)、『バグダッドの盗賊』(1940)などを完成させ、イギリス映画を代表する監督や俳優を多数世に送り出した。第二次世界大戦後は、1939年に、いったん解散したロンドン・フィルムを復活させ、『落ちた偶像』(1948)、『第三の男』(1949)、『ホフマン物語』(1951)、『超音ジェット機』(1952)、『リチャード三世』(1955)などの名作を手がけ、戦後イギリス映画に黄金期をもたらした。

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