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Julius Jaenzon

Born July 8, 1885 · Göteborg, Göteborg- och Bohus län, Sweden

Died February 17, 1961 · aged 75

Julius Jaenzon (8 July 1885 – 17 February 1961) was a Swedish cinematographer, essential in the early Swedish silent cinema. He is most known for his collaborations with directors Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller, particularly in adaptions of novels by Selma Lagerlöf. Especially the accuracy with which he mastered the double exposure, for example in The Phantom Carriage, was much admired at the…

Known For

Private Number 91-Karlsson

Private Number 91-Karlsson · 1946

Private Number 91-Karlsson

The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.

The Phantom Carriage

The Phantom Carriage · 1921

The Phantom Carriage

MovieDramaFantasy

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

The Outlaw and His Wife

The Outlaw and His Wife · 1918

The Outlaw and His Wife

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.

The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman · 1913

The Unknown Woman

A rich young man falls for a beautiful girl and meets with trouble. An adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

Sin

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.

A Man There Was

A Man There Was · 1917

A Man There Was

MovieDramaHistory

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

The Brothers

The Brothers · 1914

Brothers Paul and Georg Williams' latest invention is of great military importance, and a foreign nation enlist it's most deadly spy, Mylady, to get information about it.

Brother Against Brother

Brother Against Brother · 1913

Brother Against Brother

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.

Filmography

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Private Number 91-Karlsson

Private Number 91-Karlsson · 1946

Private Number 91-Karlsson

The Squadron leader throws big a party where one of his colleagues is going to demonstrate a new type of explosive substance.

Director of Photography

The Phantom Carriage

The Phantom Carriage · 1921

The Phantom Carriage

MovieDramaFantasy

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

Director of Photography

The Outlaw and His Wife

The Outlaw and His Wife · 1918

The Outlaw and His Wife

A stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.

Director of Photography

The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman · 1913

The Unknown Woman

A rich young man falls for a beautiful girl and meets with trouble. An adaptation of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das fremde Mädchen.

Director of Photography

Sin

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.

Cinematography

A Man There Was

A Man There Was · 1917

A Man There Was

MovieDramaHistory

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

Director of Photography

The Brothers

The Brothers · 1914

Brothers Paul and Georg Williams' latest invention is of great military importance, and a foreign nation enlist it's most deadly spy, Mylady, to get information about it.

Director of Photography

Brother Against Brother

Brother Against Brother · 1913

Brother Against Brother

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from both sides of the border. Based on the novel "La Débâcle" by Émile Zola.

Cinematography

A Boy in the Battle of Life

A Boy in the Battle of Life · 1913

A Boy in the Battle of Life

A 13 year old boy is hired as a delivery boy, and when his mother dies he is forced to take care of himself. Eventually he finds his way and grow up to become a good man.

Director of Photography

Samvetsömma Adolf

Samvetsömma Adolf · 1936

Samvetsömma Adolf

Operetta singer Adolf Berg will be called up for military duty just as he gets assigned a major role in an operetta. On the train he meets Ulla Wern and complications occur.

Director of Photography

The Stormbird

The Stormbird · 1914

Olga is a young student and a revolutionary agitator in Russian ruled Poland.

Cinematography

She Is the Only One

She Is the Only One · 1926

She Is the Only One

Love entanglements among the upper class of Paris. The young upper-class Parisian Valentin van Zanten has a luxurious lunch-density dinner with the flirtatious Inez Maria, when the "friend" shows up and interferes with his own and successful pre-man manners.

Cinematography

Sir Arne's Treasure

Sir Arne's Treasure · 1919

Sir Arne's Treasure

MovieHistoryDrama

Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.

Director of Photography

The Mannequin

The Mannequin · 1913

Lili is a young and courageous woman. She does things that create confusion. She suddenly begin to act in a film's plot in a movie theater, or take a mannequin from a shop.

Cinematography

One, But a Lion!

One, But a Lion! · 1940

One, But a Lion!

The fashion house boss Harry Martin has invited all his staff to a crayfish party at his home.

Cinematography

The Price of Betrayal

The Price of Betrayal · 1915

The Price of Betrayal

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

Cinematography

Dunungen

Dunungen · 1941

The shy Anne-Marie wants to marry the mayor's son despite his parents' opposition.

Director of Photography

Parisiennes

Parisiennes · 1928

A house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.

Director of Photography

The Saga of Gösta Berling

The Saga of Gösta Berling · 1924

The Saga of Gösta Berling

MovieDramaRomance

Gösta Berling is a young and attractive minister. Because of his alcoholism and his daring sermons, he is eventually defrocked. He becomes tutor of countess Marta's stepdaughter and they fall in love. But the countess has a plan of her own.

Director of Photography

The First Prize

The First Prize · 1915

The First Prize

A poor tailor and his wife buys a lottery ticket and dream of what to do if they win.

Cinematography

Breakers or Stolen Happiness

Breakers or Stolen Happiness · 1912

Breakers or Stolen Happiness

Annie falls in love with baron Crona. However - rumors say Crona is terrible with money, and Annie's father, the consul, denies the baron's request to marry Annie. To be able to live together, the couple flees Sweden for Europe, where the rumors are proven more than true.

Director of Photography

Man's Way with Women

Man's Way with Women · 1934

Man's Way with Women

Olof Koskela, the only son is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a floater. His reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide. When he meets the proud Kyllikki, he enters into a bet to defeat the mighty rapids standing on a log.

Cinematography

The Child

The Child · 1913

Mary and Georg love each other, but he is rejected by Mary's father who has suffered insecurity and sees his rescue in marrying Mary with the rich shipowner Harry Gordon.

Cinematography

Oaths

In the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau, fought alongside the revolutionaries. Captured, sentenced to death, he will try everything to see the woman he loves.

Cinematography