Alfred Junge

Alfred Junge (born Jan. 29, 1886, Görlitz, Ger.—died 1964, London) was a German motion-picture set designer who worked in England for more than 30 years and who was credited with doing more for the reputation of British set design than any Englishman.

Junge’s early career included work as a scenic artist at the Berlin State Opera and State Theatre Studios. He worked in German filmmaking from 1923 to 1928, and during the late 1920s he also designed several British productions.

Junge moved to England permanently in 1932, where he worked on three Alfred Hitchcock films, many musicals, and several films co-directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, for whom he did especially distinguished work. His work for the latter include A Matter of Life and Death (1946), which takes place in heaven. His extraordinary designs for Black Narcissus (1947) won him an Oscar from the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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