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Gza von Cziffra

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.

Born: December 19, 1900 in Arad, Austria-Hungary (now Romania)

Died: April 28, 1989 (Age 88)

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Géza von Cziffra  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
TV Show
6.1
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1979
TV Show
5.9
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1981
TV Show
7.9
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1980-2009
TV Show
6.1
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1973
TV Show
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1951
Movie
7.5
ActorHimself1984
Movie
5.1
DirectingDirector1951
Movie
4.9
DirectingDirector1963
Movie
4.8
DirectingDirector1962
Movie
5.1
DirectingDirector1961
Movie
5.6
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1962
Movie
6.4
WritingWriter1939
Movie
4.6
DirectingDirector1961
Movie
5.5
DirectingDirector1960
Movie
3.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1964
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector1956
Movie
4.9
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1959
Movie
5.5
DirectingDirector1958
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector1957
Movie
7.5
DirectingWriter, Director1935
Movie
6
WritingWriter1943
Movie
5.6
DirectingDirector1965
Movie
4.2
DirectingDirector1952
Movie
6.3
DirectingDirector1951
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1960
Movie
5.6
DirectingDirector, Writer1956
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector1952
Movie
DirectingDirector1949
Movie
6.5
DirectingDirector1953
Movie
7.1
DirectingDirector, Writer, Producer1955
Movie
5.1
DirectingDirector1962
Movie
3.8
WritingScreenplay1975
Movie
6.3
DirectingDirector1949
Movie
6.1
DirectingDirector1948
Movie
4.5
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1961
Movie
5.4
DirectingDirector1959
Movie
5.9
DirectingDirector1957
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1958
Movie
7
WritingWriter1936
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector, Writer1961
Movie
DirectingDirector1949
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
7.1
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
7
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
3.6
DirectingDirector, Writer1968
Movie
5.4
WritingScreenplay1969
Movie
7.7
WritingWriter1944
Movie
DirectingDirector1945
Movie
4.9
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1958
Movie
6.3
WritingWriter1930
Movie
6.7
WritingWriter1941
Movie
6.9
WritingWriter1943
Movie
4.7
DirectingDirector, Writer1969
Movie
DirectingDirector1962
Movie
5.1
DirectingDirector, Writer1959
Movie
4.8
DirectingDirector1956
Movie
7.3
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1954
Movie
6.3
DirectingDirector1960
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1957
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1953
Movie
5.8
DirectingDirector1959
Movie
5.9
DirectingAssistant Director, Screenplay1930
Movie
6.7
DirectingDirector1954
Movie
4.2
WritingScreenplay1974
Movie
5.3
DirectingDirector1957
Movie
6.6
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1948
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1949
Movie
3.1
WritingStory1965
Movie
7.2
DirectingDirector1955
Movie
6.9
DirectingDirector1947
Movie
6
DirectingDirector1950
Movie
5.6
DirectingDirector1934
Movie
6.2
DirectingDirector1935
Movie
5.9
DirectingDirector, Writer1957
Movie
WritingWriter1940
Movie
5.3
DirectingDirector, Screenplay1959
Movie
6.4
DirectingDirector, Writer1943
Movie
8.2
DirectingDirector1944
Movie
6.5
WritingWriter1935
Movie
WritingStory1941
TV Show
8.8
DirectingDirector
1 Episode
1964
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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