Curt Courant

Born in Berlin, Courant entered the film world as a cameraman for Joe May’s studio in 1917, quickly becoming a leading German cinematographer. He contributed to Asta Nielsen’s 1920 version of Hamlet, shot the epic Quo Vadis (1924) in Rome, and later joined UFA, where his lenses captured widescreen experiments in Secrets of the Orient (1927/28), the exotic drama The White Devil (1929) and the melod… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources