Emeric Pressburger was a scriptwriter, director, producer and writer. His real name was Imre Pressburger. He studied construction engineering in Prague and Stuttgart, and worked as a journalist in Berlin. In 1928 he became scriptwriter for the UFA where he worked with Robert Siodmak, Max Ophüls and Renhold Schunzel. In 1934 he went to France and a year later moved to Great Britain. While working for director Alexander Kord he met Michael Powell. In 1952 he wrote, directed and produced his only independent project Twice Upon a Time. According to his novel, Killing a Mouse on Sunday (1961), director Fred Zinnemann shot the film Behold a Pale Horse (1964). During his career Pressburger worked on 67 screenplays (as the author of the story, synopsis and screenplays) and produced 21 films.