Arzén von Cserépy (1881–1958) was a Hungarian screenwriter,énvonCseré 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)
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.