- He remained an important factor in the film business during World War II.
- One of his most unusual works might been his collaboration as a cinematographer for Hans Hass' expedition to the Galapagos Island. They worked there from 1953 to 1954.
- The cinematographer Konstantin Irmen-Tschet was born as Konstantin Cetverikov in Moscow. He was adopted later and since than his name was Konstantin Irmen-Tschet.
- He went to Germany at the beginning of the 20s where he soon entered the film business.
- From 1925 he was employed as a cameraman in the large German film industry. In these early years he was known for his skill for filming special effects.
- His last important feature movies came in Switzerland into being for the director Franz Schnyder.
- He was among others the assistant of the cinematographer Günther Rittau before he was part of the special effects of Fritz Lang's movies "Metropolis" (1927) and "Frau im Mond" (1929).
- During the Nazi era, he shot a number of Lilian Harvey films, Marika Rökk musicals as well as the epic The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1943).
- He became a demanded cinematographer in the 30s and Konstanin Irmen-Tschet was part of many popular productions.
- Irmen-Tschet emigrated to Germany following the Russian Revolution, and worked at first in the theatre.
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