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Directed by Emeric Pressburger
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
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...
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Save £11.00 The Red Shoes (Powell & Pressburger, 1948) (Collectors Edition)1948, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Rightly acclaimed as one of the great films in the history of British cinema. This film fully realises Powell's vision of complete art. He combines music, art and cinema in a work of such beauty and intelligence that it caused Scorsese to name it ...
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Save £10.00 A Matter of Life and Death1946, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD AKA Stairway to Heaven. 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...
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Save £14.00 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 am Go...
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Save £32.00 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...
£6.99 3 Classic Powell And Pressburger Films1946, 1943, 1945, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Features A Matter of Life And Death, The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp and I Know Where I'm Going.
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Save £4.00 I Know Where Im 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,...
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Save £3.00 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.
£12.99 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.
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Save £3.00 Gone To Earth (aka The Wild Heart)1950, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD Jones is at her most tempting as the wilful country girl who succumbs to the wicked squire. The English countryside was seldom evoked more powerfully (or luridly) - you can almost smell the Shropshire countryside. Jones's accent is, let's say, int...
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Save £6.00 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 ...
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Save £10.00 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.
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Save £3.00 The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (Special Edition)1943, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, VHSPAL 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 ...
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Save £8.50 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...
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Save £6.00 49th Parallel1941, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, DVD A highly important and effective propaganda film in which a damaged Nazi U-boat is sunk in Canadian waters early in WWII. The Nazi captain and his remaining crew must reach the neutral United States before they are captured. An Oscar winner in 194...
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