Arzén von Cserépy (1881–1958) was a Hungarian screenwriter, film producer and director who was based in Germany. He ran his own production company Cserépy-Film until it was merged into the larger UFA empire. von Cserépy became associated with a series of films about the Prussian monarch Frederick the Great. He was sometimes credited as Arzén Cserépy.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• The Armoured Vault (1914)
• Marshal Forwards (1932)

Producer

• Catherine the Great (1920)
• Mary Magdalene (1920)
• The Girl from Acker Street (1920)
• A Day on Mars (1921)
• Fridericus Rex (1922-1923)
• Old Heidelberg (1923)
• Strong Winds (1924)
• The Hymn of Leuthen (1933)

Director

• Seltsame Köpfe (1916)
• Colomba (1918)
• Pandora's Box (1921)
• Fridericus Rex (1922)
• The Hymn of Leuthen (1933)
• A Woman With Power of Attorney (1934)
• Don't Lose Heart, Suzanne! (1935)
• Landslide (1940)

Bibliography

• Kaes, Anton. Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War. Princeton University Press, 2009.
• Kreimeier, Klaus. The Ufa story: a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. University of California Press, 1999.

External links

• Arzén von Cserépy at IMDb

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