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Géza von Cziffra

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
6

Gender
Male

Birthday
December 19, 1900 (125 years old)

Place of Birth
Arad, Austria-Hungary (now Romania)

Géza von Cziffra

Biography

Géza von Cziffra (19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.

Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania.

Cziffra made films from the 1930s onwards, at first in Hungary, and from 1936 in Germany as well, where he was initially more active as a screenwriter.

In 1945, in Prague, then occupied by the Germans, he made the film Leuchtende Schatten ("Glowing Shadows"). As adviser for the criminal police, he was assigned SS-Sturmbannführer Eweler, a member of the SD and brother of the actress Ruth Eweler. After some time, Cziffra banned Eweler from the studios for excessive and obstructive criticism. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested and taken to the Prague Gestapo Headquarters in the Pecec Palace, where he was accused of having eaten several times in the Czech restaurant "Neumann" without using ration stamps. He was eventually dispatched to Pankrác Prison, the remand and interrogation prison of Prague, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, beginning on 12 February. He was released from detention on 19 April, shortly before the end of the war.

In 1945, in Vienna, Cziffra founded the first post-war Austrian film production company: Cziffra-Film.

Principally, and for preference, he made light entertainment and musical films, with well-known German and Austrian actors such as Peter Alexander, Rudolf Platte, Senta Berger and Hubert von Meyerinck. Through the input of musicians like Bill Ramsey or Bully Buhlan, the films mostly progressed to being musical revues with a local Austrian slant and flavour (Heimatfilme). Cziffra also worked as an actor himself, and later in his life published a number of books.

He was married to the actress Ursula Justin, who starred in six of his films in the 1950s.

He died on 28 April 1989 in Diessen am Ammersee in Bavaria. His remains are interred in the crematorium in the Ostfriedhof, Munich.

Known For

Writing

1975The Three Superguys...Screenplay
1974Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal...Screenplay
1969Should a Schoolgirl Tell?...Writer
1969Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up...Screenplay
1968Paradies der flotten Sünder...Writer
1965Ein Ferienbett mit 100 PS...Story
1964Lana: Queen of the Amazons...Story
1964Lana: Queen of the Amazons...Writer
1962Die Fledermaus...Screenplay
1961Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel...Writer
1961Junge Leute brauchen Liebe...Screenplay
1960Kriminaltango...Screenplay
1960Als geheilt entlassen...Screenplay
1959Salem Aleikum...Writer
1959Ich bin kein Casanova...Screenplay
1959Peter schießt den Vogel ab...Screenplay
1958Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen...Screenplay
1957Das haut hin...Writer
1956Die gestohlene Hose...Screenplay
1956Musikparade...Writer
1955Bandits of the Highway...Writer
1954Geld aus der Luft...Screenplay
1949Höllische Liebe...Writer
1948Der himmlische Walzer...Screenplay
1945Leuchtende Schatten...Screenplay
1944The Wedding Hotel...Writer
1943Der weiße Traum...Writer
1943Melody of a Great City...Writer
1943Women Are No Angels...Writer
1941Tanz mit dem Kaiser...Writer
1941Villa da vendere...Story
1940Der Weg zu Isabel...Writer
1939It Was a Gay Ballnight...Writer
1936Where the Lark Sings...Writer
1935Villa for Sale...Writer
1935Ball at the Savoy...Writer
1930Three Days in the Guardhouse...Writer
1930The Copper...Screenplay

Directing

1969Should a Schoolgirl Tell?...Director
1968Paradies der flotten Sünder...Director
1965An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht...Director
1964Lana: Queen of the Amazons...Director
1964Das Haus der Schlangen...Director
1963Charley's Aunt...Director
1963Frauen sind keine Engel...Director
1962Nachts ging das Telefon...Director
1962Der Vogelhändler...Director
1962The Sweet Life of Count Bobby...Director
1962Die Fledermaus...Director
1961Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel...Director
1961Junge Leute brauchen Liebe...Director
1961Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby...Director
1961Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon...Director
1960Hauptmann - deine Sterne...Director
1960Kriminaltango...Director
1960Als geheilt entlassen...Director
1959Salem Aleikum...Director
1959Ich bin kein Casanova...Director
1959Bobby Dodd intervenes...Director
1959Peter schießt den Vogel ab...Director
1959Schlag auf Schlag...Director
1958So ein Millionär hat's schwer...Director
1958Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen...Director
1958Nachtschwester Ingeborg...Director
1957Der müde Theodor...Director
1957Tante Wanda aus Uganda...Director
1957Das haut hin...Director
1957Crazy Otto...Director
1957Die Beine von Dolores...Director
1956Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis...Director
1956Die gestohlene Hose...Director
1956Musikparade...Director
1955Bandits of the Highway...Director
1955Der falsche Adam...Director
1954Tanz in der Sonne...Director
1954Geld aus der Luft...Director
1953Die Blume von Hawaii...Director
1953Das singende Hotel...Director
1952Tanzende Sterne...Director
1952Der bunte Traum...Director
1951Die verschleierte Maja...Director
1951A Tale of Five Cities...Director
1950Die Dritte von rechts...Director
1950Liebe nach Noten...Director
1950Der Mann, der sich selber sucht...Director
1950Gabriela...Director
1949Gefährliche Gäste...Director
1949Höllische Liebe...Director
1949Das unsterbliche Antlitz...Director
1949Lambert fühlt sich bedroht...Director
1948Der himmlische Walzer...Director
1948Königin der Landstraße...Director
1947Glaube an mich...Director
1945Leuchtende Schatten...Director
1944Dog Days...Director
1943Der weiße Traum...Director
1935Szent Péter esernyője...Director
1935Villa for Sale...Director
1934A Night in Venice...Director
1930The Copper...Assistant Director

Production

1955Bandits of the Highway...Producer
1949Höllische Liebe...Producer

Acting

1984Bruised Celluloidas Himself
1981Wetten, dass..?as Self
1980Heut' abendas Self
1979NDR Talk Showas Self
1973Je später der Abendas Self
1951German Film Awardas Self