Arzén von Cserépy (1881–1958) was a Hungarian screenwriter, 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.
Cserépy joined the Nazi Party in January 1932.German Federal Archives R 9361-IX KARTEI/5600879.
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) On the Way Home (1940) Let's Love Each Other (1941)
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.
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