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Name
  
Geza Cziffra

Role
  
Film director

Ex-spouse
  
Ursula Justin



Died
  
April 28, 1989, Diesen am Ammersee, Germany

Awards
  
German Film Award - Honorary Award

Movies
  
So ein Millionar hat\'s sch, Die Fledermaus, Kauf dir einen bunten L, Kriminaltango, Peter schiest den Vogel ab

Similar People
  
Germaine Damar, Oskar Sima, Gunther Philipp, Vera Molnar, Peter Alexander

Film Die Fledermaus 1962


Géza von Cziffra ([ˈɡeːzɒ fɔn ˈtsifrɒ]; 19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.

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Eine folge heut abend mit joachim fuchsberger zu gast geza von cziffra 1986


Life

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

Selected filmography

  • Gullivers Reise (1924)(screenplay and direction)
  • The Copper (1930) with Hans Albers, Harry Hardt, Karl Ludwig Diehl and Charlotte Susa (screenplay and assistance with direction)
  • Three Days Confined to Barracks (1930)
  • Villa for Sale (1935)
  • Where the Lark Sings (1936) with Marta Eggerth, Hans Söhnker and Lucie Englisch (author)
  • St. Peter's Umbrella (1936) (directed)
  • The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky (1939)
  • Melody of a Great City (1943)
  • Love Premiere (1943)
  • Women Are No Angels (1943)
  • The Wedding Hotel (1944)
  • Liebe nach Noten (1945) with Rudolf Prack and Sonja Ziemann
  • The Queen of the Landstrasse (1948)
  • Dangerous Guests (1949) with Wolf Albach-Retty and Käthe Haack
  • Gabriela (1950) with Zarah Leander
  • Third from the Right (1950)
  • A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
  • Maya of the Seven Veils (1951)
  • The Flower of Hawaii (1953)
  • Aunt Wanda from Uganda (1957)
  • The Legs of Dolores (1957) with Germaine Damar, Claus Biederstaedt, Grethe Weiser and Bum Krüger
  • The Singing Hotel (1953) with Rudolf Platte, Fita Benkhoff and Bully Buhlan
  • So ein Millionär hat's schwer (1958) with Peter Alexander, Germaine Damar
  • Kriminaltango (1960) with Peter Alexander and Vivi Bach
  • Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby (1961) with Peter Alexander, Vivi Bach and Gunther Philipp
  • Junge Leute brauchen Liebe (1961) with Cornelia Froboess, Johannes Heesters and Waltraut Haas
  • Kauf dir einen bunten Luftballon (1961) with Ina Bauer, Anton Sailer, Heinz Erhardt, Ralf Wolter and Ruth Stephan
  • Die Fledermaus (1962) with Peter Alexander, Marika Rökk, Willy Millowitsch, Gunther Philipp, Boy Gobert, Hans Moser and Oskar Sima
  • Der Vogelhändler (1962) with Cornelia Froboess, Georg Thomalla and Peter Weck
  • Nachts ging das Telefon (1962)
  • Charleys Tante (1963) with Peter Alexander and Fritz Eckhardt
  • Awards

  • 1975: Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Wien
  • 1976: Bundesverdienstkreuz der Republik Österreich
  • 1985: Filmband in Gold for long and excellent work in the German film industry
  • References

    Géza von Cziffra Wikipedia