Václav Vích

Václav Vích
Alessandro Blasetti and Vích on set
Born	18 January 1898 Karlsbad, Bohemia Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	14 September 1966 Rome, Lazio Italy
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1923 – 1962

Václav Vích (18 January 1898 – 14 September 1966) was a Czech cinematographer, who worked on over a hundred films in different countries during his career. In the 1930s, Vích was one of the top technicians in the Italian film industry.^[1] He often worked with the director Max Neufeld.^[2]

Selected filmography

• The Kidnapping of Fux the Banker (1923)
• A Double Life (1924)
• The May Fairy (1926)
• Erotikon (1929)
• Call of the Blood (1929)
• St. Wenceslas (1930)
• Když struny lkají (1930)
• The Affair of Colonel Redl (1931)
• The Case of Colonel Redl (1931)
• Muži v offsidu (1931)
• The Ruined Shopkeeper (1933)
• The Happiness of Grinzing (1933)
• Volga in Flames (1934)
• The Little Pet (1934)
• Grand Hotel Nevada (1935)
• Le Golem (1936)
• Shipwrecked Max (1936)
• Cavalry (1936)
• The Castiglioni Brothers, (1937)
• It Was I! (1937)
• Queen of the Scala (1937)
• The Black Corsair (1937)
• Ettore Fieramosca (1938)
• The Count of Brechard (1938)
• Tonight at Eleven (1938)
• The Castle Ball (1939)
• Backstage (1939)
• Unjustified Absence (1939)
• The Sinner (1940)
• First Love (1941)
• Lucky Night (1941)
• The Secret Lover (1941)
• Luisa Sanfelice (1942)
• Mist on the Sea (1944)
• No Turning Back (1945)
• Eugenia Grandet (1945)
• We Are Not Married (1946)
• Be Seeing You, Father (1948)
• The Legend of Faust (1949)
• The Lost One (1951)
• The Sinner (1951)
• Miracles Still Happen (1951)
• Nights on the Road (1952)
• Illusion in a Minor Key (1952)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• Der schönste Tag meines Lebens (1957)
• Escape from Sahara (1958)
• Giuseppina (1960): filmed 1959
• Romance in Venice (1962)

References

1. Gundle p.61
2. Gundle p.227

Bibliography

• Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013.
• Bartošek, Lukáš (1984). Muži za kamerou (in Czech). Prague: Československý filmový ústav.

External links

• Václav Vích at IMDb