Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

(2010)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 39 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2010

Runtime: 86 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Крэйг МакКолл

Cast: Jack Cardiff, Мартин Скорсезе, Кирк Дуглас, Лорен Бэколл, Чарлтон Хестон, Ким Хантер, John Mills, Алан Паркер, Тельма Шунмейкер, Freddie Francis

Plot

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.