Pressburger

British  

/ ˈprɛsˌbɜːɡə /

noun

1. Emeric (ˈɛmərɪk). 1902–88, Hungarian film writer and producer, living in Britain: best known for his collaboration (1942–57) with Michael Powell. Films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), I Know Where I'm Going (1945), and A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

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Example Sentences

There’s a special, frictional magic to creative teamwork — Laurel and Hardy, Nichols and May, Powell and Pressburger, Rankin and Bass — amplified when the teammates are linked by blood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

Marsh began her performing career as a teenager, appearing as a dancer in the Michael Powell-Emeric Pressburger film, “The Tales of Hoffmann.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025

Powell and Pressburger, known as the Archers, made the much-admired classics “The Red Shoes,” “A Matter of Life and Death,” “Black Narcissus” and “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2022

He wore double-breasted pin-striped suits and bow ties, and he had pronounced aesthetic preferences: Symbolist opera, the movies of Powell and Pressburger, a brand of Turkish cigarette with an elliptical shape.

From The New Yorker • May 13, 2019

At that stage I was very influenced by Ealing comedies and a bit later by Boulting brothers, and by Powell and Pressburger.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2018