Géza von Cziffra
Directing
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
Directing62
movieCharley's Aunt
1963
Director
movieDer Vogelhändler
1962
Director
movieDie Fledermaus
1962
Director
movieKriminaltango
1960
Director
movieAls geheilt entlassen
1960
Director
movieSalem Aleikum
1959
Director
movieIch bin kein Casanova
1959
Director
movieBobby Dodd intervenes
1959
Director
movieSchlag auf Schlag
1959
Director
movieNachtschwester Ingeborg
1958
Director
movieDer müde Theodor
1957
Director
movieTante Wanda aus Uganda
1957
Director
movieDas haut hin
1957
Director
movieCrazy Otto
1957
Director
movieDie Beine von Dolores
1957
Director
movieDie gestohlene Hose
1956
Director
movieMusikparade
1956
Director
movieBandits of the Highway
1955
Director
movieDer falsche Adam
1955
Director
movieTanz in der Sonne
1954
Director
movieGeld aus der Luft
1954
Director
movieDas singende Hotel
1953
Director
movieTanzende Sterne
1952
Director
movieDer bunte Traum
1952
Director
movieDie verschleierte Maja
1951
Director
movieA Tale of Five Cities
1951
Director
movieDie Dritte von rechts
1950
Director
movieLiebe nach Noten
1950
Director
movieGabriela
1950
Director
movieGefährliche Gäste
1949
Director
movieHöllische Liebe
1949
Director
movieDer himmlische Walzer
1948
Director
movieKönigin der Landstraße
1948
Director
movieGlaube an mich
1947
Director
movieDog Days
1944
Director
movieDer weiße Traum
1943
Director
movieSzent Péter esernyője
1935
Director
movieVilla for Sale
1935
Director
movieA Night in Venice
1934
Director
movieThe Copper
1930
Assistant Director
Writing37
movieThe Three Superguys
1975
Screenplay
movieDas Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up
1969
Screenplay
movieLana: Queen of the Amazons
1964
Story, Writer
movieDie Fledermaus
1962
Screenplay
movieJunge Leute brauchen Liebe
1961
Screenplay
movieKriminaltango
1960
Screenplay
movieAls geheilt entlassen
1960
Screenplay
movieSalem Aleikum
1959
Writer
movieIch bin kein Casanova
1959
Screenplay
moviePeter schießt den Vogel ab
1959
Screenplay
movieWehe, wenn sie losgelassen
1958
Screenplay
movieDas haut hin
1957
Writer
movieDie gestohlene Hose
1956
Screenplay
movieMusikparade
1956
Writer
movieGeld aus der Luft
1954
Screenplay
movieHöllische Liebe
1949
Writer
movieDer himmlische Walzer
1948
Screenplay
movieDer weiße Traum
1943
Writer
movieVilla for Sale
1935
Writer
movieThe Copper
1930
Screenplay
Acting6
Production2
movieBandits of the Highway
1955
Producer
movieHöllische Liebe
1949
Producer