Arzén von Cserépy

Hungarian screenwriter, film producer and director

Arzén von Cserépy
Born	17 July 1881 Budapest Austria-Hungary
Died	March 1958 (aged 76)
Other names	Arzén Cserépy, Konrad Wieder
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Years active	1914–1942

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)
On the Way Home (1940)
Let's Love Each Other (1941)

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.