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.
Charley's Aunt
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Junge Leute brauchen Liebe
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Junge Leute brauchen Liebe
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Schlag auf Schlag
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Kriminaltango
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Der müde Theodor
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Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis
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So ein Millionär hat's schwer
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Peter schießt den Vogel ab
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Frauen sind keine Engel
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Das süße Leben des Grafen Bobby
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Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
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Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby
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Salem Aleikum
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Lana: Queen of the Amazons
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Die Fledermaus
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A Night in Venice
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Der schräge Otto
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Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon
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Der himmlische Walzer
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Der Vogelhändler
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Where the Lark Sings
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Tanzende Sterne
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Tante Wanda aus Uganda
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An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht
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Ich bin kein Casanova
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Bobby Dodd intervenes
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Der weiße Traum
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Die Beine von Dolores
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A Tale of Five Cities
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Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel
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Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel
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Ich bin kein Casanova
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Tanz in der Sonne
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Das singende Hotel
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Lambert fühlt sich bedroht
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Höllische Liebe
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Bandits of the Highway
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Als geheilt entlassen
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Nachtschwester Ingeborg
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Die gestohlene Hose
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Das unsterbliche Antlitz
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Gabriela
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Hauptmann - deine Sterne
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Leuchtende Schatten
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Der falsche Adam
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Die Dritte von rechts
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Königin der Landstraße
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Glaube an mich
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Liebe nach Noten
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Der bunte Traum
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Die verschleierte Maja
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Bandits of the Highway
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Nachts ging das Telefon
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Ein Ferienbett mit 100 PS
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Paradies der flotten Sünder
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Paradies der flotten Sünder
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Die Fledermaus
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Wetterleuchten über dem Zillertal
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Villa da vendere
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Gefährliche Gäste
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Peter schießt den Vogel ab
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Die Blume von Hawaii
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Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
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Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
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Bandits of the Highway
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Villa for Sale
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Villa for Sale
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It Was a Gay Ballnight
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Das haut hin
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Das haut hin
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Das Go-Go-Girl vom Blow-Up
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Als geheilt entlassen
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Musikparade
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Musikparade
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Das Hochzeitshotel
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Lana: Queen of the Amazons
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Der Mann, der sich selber sucht
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Szent Péter esernyője
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Hundstage
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Geld aus der Luft
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Tanz mit dem Kaiser
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The Gripper
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The Gripper
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The Three Superguys
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Der weiße Traum
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Melody of a Great City
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Salem Aleikum
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Three days of middle arrest
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Der himmlische Walzer
(Screenplay)
Geld aus der Luft
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Ball at the Savoy
(Writer)
Der Weg zu Isabel
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Frauen sind keine Engel
(Director)
Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
(Writer)
Das Haus der Schlangen
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