Weber, Kurt

(1928-)

   Cinematographer and teacher at the Łódź Film School from 1953 to 1969. Weber started his career working on the socialist realist film Two Brigades (Dwie brygady, 1950, Eugeniusz Cękalski). Among his better-known films made during the Polish School period are Damned Roads (1959), directed by Czesław Petelski, and A Sky of Stone (1959), directed by Ewa and Czesław Petelski. Weber's talent for capturing realistic detail is also evident in Kazimierz Kutz's People from the Train (1961) and Tadeusz Konwicki's All Souls' Day (1961) and Somersault (1965). Later Weber also worked with Stanisław Różewicz (Hell and Heaven, 1966), Janusz Majewski (The Lodger, 1967), and Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski (The Murderer Leaves a Trail, 1967). In 1969 Weber immigrated to Israel and also worked on several films produced in the former West Germany.

   Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema by Marek Haltof