Ernő Gottesmann

Ernő Gottesmann (19 December 1907 in Arad – 20 December 2004 in Budapest) Hungarian production manager and film producer.

Biography

He was the son of Ernő Gottesmann and Paula Manoilovich.^[1] He attended high school in Budapest, and after graduation, he became a student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. After completing 4 semesters, he left the university, and started working at a German firm called Telefunken, later on he also worked at the Hungarian General Credit Bank, and at Sport Tours. From 1938 he worked at Magyar Filmiroda as a production manager. His most famous films were The Relative of His Excellency, along with Dr. Kovács István and The devil never sleeps (Az ördög nem alszik).

Filmography (as a production manager)

• A kegyelmes úr rokona (1941)
• Az ördög nem alszik (1941)
• Three Bells (1941)
• Dr. Kovács István (1942)
• We'll Know By Midnight (1942)
• Szakítani nehéz dolog (1942)
• 5-ös számú őrház (1942)
• Kölcsönadott élet (1943)
• Quite a Lad (1943)
• Féltékenység (1943)
• Házassággal kezdődik (1943)
• Lejtőn (1944)^[2]
• A látszat csal (1944)
• Makkhetes (1944)

References

Sources

• "Gottesmann Ernő". Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum. Retrieved 2015-05-11.
• Ernő Gottesmann at IMDb
• Magyar filmlexikon. edited by József Veress. Bp., Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchivum, 2005., 322. p.
• Castiglione Henrik, Székely Sándor, ed. (1941). Filmlexikon. Budapest: Merkantil Nyomda. pp. 211–212.