Art

Ernö Metzner

Born February 25, 1892 · Szabadka, Austria-Hungary [now Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia]

Died September 25, 1953 · aged 61

Hungarian art designer. Married to actress Grace Chiang.

Known For

Diary of a Lost GirlDiary of a Lost Girl · 1929
Diary of a Lost Girl
7.31929
MovieDrama
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Pandora's BoxPandora's Box · 1929
Pandora's Box
7.41929
MovieDramaCrime
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
AccidentAccident · 1928
Accident
6.51928
MovieCrimeDrama
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Westfront 1918Westfront 1918 · 1930
Westfront 1918
6.61930
MovieWarDrama
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
Seven SinnersSeven Sinners · 1936
Seven Sinners
6.21936
MovieThrillerCrime
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
It Happened TomorrowIt Happened Tomorrow · 1944
It Happened Tomorrow
6.81944
MovieFantasyComedy
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
The Macomber AffairThe Macomber Affair · 1947
The Macomber Affair
6.81947
MovieAdventureDrama
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Oh, Daddy!Oh, Daddy! · 1935
Oh, Daddy!
6.01935
MovieComedyMusic
Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

Filmography

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Queen of AtlantisQueen of Atlantis · 1932
Queen of Atlantis
6.41932
MovieFantasyScience Fiction
Two young officers, Saint-Avit and Morhange, get lost in the desert and find themselves prisoners of the beautiful Antinéa, queen of the city of Atlantis. Saint-Avit, blinded by his love for her, obeys her when she orders him to kill his comrade... With L’Atlantide, Pabst offers a psychoanalytic reading of Benoit’s novel, with a dominant female figure who enslaves her lovers before destroying them. The film’s fantasy dimension is disturbing, L’Atlantide bathes in a humid nightmare atmosphere, between the desperate search for a missing friend and the apparitions of an underworld lost in the desert. A long, discursive flashback suggests the Parisian origins of Antinéa, born from the marriage between Clémentine, a pretty, light-thighed French Cancan dancer, and an Arab prince seduced during a theatrical performance. But again, it's impossible to know whether these are the ramblings of an old alcoholic or the strange truth.

Art Direction

The Sea CallsThe Sea Calls · 1933
The Sea Calls
8.01933
MovieDramaWar
The Baltic captain Terje Wiggen works as a pilot on the island of Muhu. When the mate of the ship “Carola” calls in sick, he jumps at the chance of reviving his life as a sailor. WWI breaks soon after the departure. By and by the ship’s company gets worn down by dead calm. On account of the plague-ridden captain, Wiggen disposes of the contaminated water reserve. Discontent among the crew rises until they take the sole lifeboat and leave their mate behind. Wiggen unsuccessfully tries to bring the ship under control. At the last minute he is rescued off the Japanese coast. At his return he promises to never leave his wife and child again. But the German Imperial Navy begins to blockade the waterways of the island. Wiggen paddles to Sweden with the intention of smuggling provisions for his family. On his way back he is detained by a German captain. After five years of imprisonment he returns to Muhu once more. Wiggen is hellbent on vengeance. (Deutsche Kinemathek)

Art Direction