Géza von Cziffra
Biography
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.
Acting (1 movie)
Directing (60 movies)

Charley's Aunt
1963

Junge Leute brauchen Liebe
1961

Schlag auf Schlag
1959

Kriminaltango
1960

Der müde Theodor
1957

So ein Millionär hat's schwer
1958

Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis
1956

Peter schießt den Vogel ab
1959

The Sweet Life of Count Bobby
1962

Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
1958

Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby
1961

Salem Aleikum
1959

Lana: Queen of the Amazons
1964

Die Fledermaus
1962

A Night in Venice
1934

Crazy Otto
1957

Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon
1961

Der himmlische Walzer
1948

Der Vogelhändler
1962

Tante Wanda aus Uganda
1957

Tanzende Sterne
1952

An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht
1965

Ich bin kein Casanova
1959

Bobby Dodd intervenes
1959

Der weiße Traum
1943

Die Beine von Dolores
1957

A Tale of Five Cities
1951

Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel
1961

Tanz in der Sonne
1954

Das singende Hotel
1953
Lambert fühlt sich bedroht
1949

Very Passionate Love
1949

Als geheilt entlassen
1960

Bandits of the Highway
1955

Nachtschwester Ingeborg
1958

Die gestohlene Hose
1956

Das unsterbliche Antlitz
1949

Gabriela
1950

Hauptmann - deine Sterne
1960
Leuchtende Schatten
1945

Der falsche Adam
1955

Die Dritte von rechts
1950

Königin der Landstraße
1948
Glaube an mich
1947

Liebe nach Noten
1950

Der bunte Traum
1952

Die verschleierte Maja
1951
Nachts ging das Telefon
1962

Paradies der flotten Sünder
1968

Gefährliche Gäste
1949
Die Blume von Hawaii
1953

Should a Schoolgirl Tell?
1969

Villa for Sale
1935

Das haut hin
1957

Musikparade
1956
Der Mann, der sich selber sucht
1950

Szent Péter esernyője
1935

Hundstage
1944

Geld aus der Luft
1954
Frauen sind keine Engel
1963
