Géza von Cziffra
DirectingGéza 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.
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Filmography — Acting
Filmography — Crew
Die Fledermaus
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Paradies der flotten Sünder
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The Sweet Life of Count Bobby
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A Tale of Five Cities
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Salem Aleikum
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Lana: Queen of the Amazons
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Tanz mit dem Kaiser
Writer
Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
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Junge Leute brauchen Liebe
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Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
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Where the Lark Sings
Writer
The Three Superguys
Screenplay
Ball at the Savoy
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So ein Millionär hat's schwer
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Hundstage
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Peter schießt den Vogel ab
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It Was a Gay Ballnight
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Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis
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Women Are No Angels
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Gabriela
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Lambert fühlt sich bedroht
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Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby
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Kriminaltango
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Bandits of the Highway
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Musikparade
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Ich bin kein Casanova
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Die verschleierte Maja
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Der bunte Traum
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Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up
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Leuchtende Schatten
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Villa for Sale
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Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal
Screenplay
Three Days in the Guardhouse
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Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon
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Bobby Dodd intervenes
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A Night in Venice
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Gefährliche Gäste
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Der Mann, der sich selber sucht
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Frauen sind keine Engel
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Tanzende Sterne
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Tanz in der Sonne
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Die Blume von Hawaii
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Schlag auf Schlag
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Der Weg zu Isabel
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Der himmlische Walzer
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Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel
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Die Beine von Dolores
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Der Vogelhändler
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Geld aus der Luft
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Höllische Liebe
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An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht
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Crazy Otto
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Als geheilt entlassen
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Melody of a Great City
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Nachtschwester Ingeborg
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Charley's Aunt
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Die Dritte von rechts
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Glaube an mich
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Der weiße Traum
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Die gestohlene Hose
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Das Hochzeitshotel
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Szent Péter esernyője
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Der falsche Adam
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Das singende Hotel
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Das haut hin
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The Copper
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Hauptmann - deine Sterne
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Der müde Theodor
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Tante Wanda aus Uganda
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Das unsterbliche Antlitz
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Nachts ging das Telefon
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Liebe nach Noten
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Königin der Landstraße
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