Géza von Cziffra
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.
Fotos
Filmes (76)
Bruised Celluloid
1984 · Himself
The Three Superguys
1975 · Screenplay
Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal
1974 · Screenplay
Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
1969 · Director, Writer
Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up
1969 · Screenplay
Paradies der flotten Sünder
1968 · Director, Writer
An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht
1965 · Director
Ein Ferienbett mit 100 PS
1965 · Story
Lana: Queen of the Amazons
1964 · Director, Story, Writer
Charley's Aunt
1963 · Director
Frauen sind keine Engel
1963 · Director
Nachts ging das Telefon
1962 · Director
Der Vogelhändler
1962 · Director
The Sweet Life of Count Bobby
1962 · Director
Die Fledermaus
1962 · Director, Screenplay
Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel
1961 · Director, Writer
Junge Leute brauchen Liebe
1961 · Director, Screenplay
Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby
1961 · Director
Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon
1961 · Director
Hauptmann - deine Sterne
1960 · Director
Kriminaltango
1960 · Director, Screenplay
Als geheilt entlassen
1960 · Director, Screenplay
Salem Aleikum
1959 · Director, Writer
Ich bin kein Casanova
1959 · Director, Screenplay
Bobby Dodd intervenes
1959 · Director
Peter schießt den Vogel ab
1959 · Director, Screenplay
Schlag auf Schlag
1959 · Director
So ein Millionär hat's schwer
1958 · Director
Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
1958 · Director, Screenplay
Nachtschwester Ingeborg
1958 · Director
Der müde Theodor
1957 · Director
Tante Wanda aus Uganda
1957 · Director
Das haut hin
1957 · Director, Writer
Crazy Otto
1957 · Director
Die Beine von Dolores
1957 · Director
Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis
1956 · Director
Die gestohlene Hose
1956 · Director, Screenplay
Musikparade
1956 · Director, Writer
Bandits of the Highway
1955 · Director, Producer, Writer
Der falsche Adam
1955 · Director
Tanz in der Sonne
1954 · Director
Geld aus der Luft
1954 · Director, Screenplay
Die Blume von Hawaii
1953 · Director
Das singende Hotel
1953 · Director
Tanzende Sterne
1952 · Director
Der bunte Traum
1952 · Director
Die verschleierte Maja
1951 · Director
A Tale of Five Cities
1951 · Director
Die Dritte von rechts
1950 · Director
Liebe nach Noten
1950 · Director
Der Mann, der sich selber sucht
1950 · Director
Gabriela
1950 · Director
Gefährliche Gäste
1949 · Director
Höllische Liebe
1949 · Director, Writer, Producer
Das unsterbliche Antlitz
1949 · Director
Lambert fühlt sich bedroht
1949 · Director
Der himmlische Walzer
1948 · Director, Screenplay
Königin der Landstraße
1948 · Director
Glaube an mich
1947 · Director
Leuchtende Schatten
1945 · Director, Screenplay
The Wedding Hotel
1944 · Writer
Dog Days
1944 · Director
Der weiße Traum
1943 · Director, Writer
Melody of a Great City
1943 · Writer
Women Are No Angels
1943 · Writer
Tanz mit dem Kaiser
1941 · Writer
Villa da vendere
1941 · Story
Der Weg zu Isabel
1940 · Writer
It Was a Gay Ballnight
1939 · Writer
Where the Lark Sings
1936 · Writer
St. Peter's Umbrella
1935 · Director
Villa for Sale
1935 · Director, Writer
Ball at the Savoy
1935 · Writer
A Night in Venice
1934 · Director
Three Days in the Guardhouse
1930 · Writer
The Copper
1930 · Assistant Director, Screenplay
