About
Géza von Cziffra
Overview
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
Acting |
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1984 | Bruised Celluloid | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
Directing |
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1969 | Should a Schoolgirl Tell? | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1968 | Paradies der flotten Sünder | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1965 | An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1964 | Lana: Queen of the Amazons | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1964 | Das Haus der Schlangen | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1963 | Charley's Aunt | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1963 | Frauen sind keine Engel | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1962 | Nachts ging das Telefon | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1962 | Der Vogelhändler | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1962 | Das süße Leben des Grafen Bobby | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1962 | Die Fledermaus | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1961 | Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1961 | Junge Leute brauchen Liebe | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1961 | Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1961 | Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1960 | Hauptmann - deine Sterne | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1960 | Kriminaltango | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1960 | Als geheilt entlassen | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1959 | Salem Aleikum | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1959 | Ich bin kein Casanova | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1959 | Bobby Dodd intervenes | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1959 | Peter schießt den Vogel ab | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1959 | Schlag auf Schlag | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1958 | So ein Millionär hat's schwer | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1958 | Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1958 | Nachtschwester Ingeborg | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1957 | Der müde Theodor | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1957 | Tante Wanda aus Uganda | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1957 | Das haut hin | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1957 | Der schräge Otto | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1957 | Die Beine von Dolores | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1956 | Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1956 | Die gestohlene Hose | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1956 | Musikparade | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1955 | Bandits of the Highway | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1955 | Der falsche Adam | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1954 | Tanz in der Sonne | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1954 | Geld aus der Luft | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1953 | Die Blume von Hawaii | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1953 | Das singende Hotel | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1952 | Tanzende Sterne | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1952 | Der bunte Traum | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1951 | Die verschleierte Maja | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1951 | A Tale of Five Cities | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
1950 | Die Dritte von rechts | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1950 | Liebe nach Noten | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1950 | Der Mann, der sich selber sucht | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1950 | Gabriela | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1949 | Gefährliche Gäste | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1949 | Höllische Liebe | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1949 | Das unsterbliche Antlitz | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1949 | Lambert fühlt sich bedroht | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1948 | Der himmlische Walzer | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1948 | Königin der Landstraße | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1947 | Glaube an mich | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1945 | Leuchtende Schatten | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1944 | Hundstage | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1943 | Der weiße Traum | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
1935 | Szent Péter esernyője | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1935 | Villa for Sale | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1934 | A Night in Venice | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
1930 | The Gripper | Directing | Assistant Director | 59 Average |
Writing |
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1975 | The Three Superguys | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
1974 | Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
1969 | Should a Schoolgirl Tell? | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1969 | Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1968 | Paradies der flotten Sünder | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1965 | Ein Ferienbett mit 100 PS | Writing | Story | 58 Average |
1964 | Lana: Queen of the Amazons | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1962 | Die Fledermaus | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1961 | Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1961 | Junge Leute brauchen Liebe | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1960 | Als geheilt entlassen | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1959 | Salem Aleikum | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1959 | Ich bin kein Casanova | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1959 | Peter schießt den Vogel ab | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
1958 | Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1957 | Das haut hin | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1956 | Musikparade | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1955 | Bandits of the Highway | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1954 | Geld aus der Luft | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
1948 | Der himmlische Walzer | Writing | Screenplay | N/A N/A |
1944 | Das Hochzeitshotel | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1943 | Melody of a Great City | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1943 | Der weiße Traum | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1943 | Women Are No Angels | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1941 | Tanz mit dem Kaiser | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1941 | Villa da vendere | Writing | Story | N/A N/A |
1940 | Der Weg zu Isabel | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1939 | It Was a Gay Ballnight | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1936 | Where the Lark Sings | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1935 | Ball at the Savoy | Writing | Writer | 59 Average |
1935 | Villa for Sale | Writing | Writer | N/A N/A |
1930 | Three days of middle arrest | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
1930 | The Gripper | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
Production |
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1955 | Bandits of the Highway | Production | Producer | 59 Average |