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Filmmaker · Austria

Géza von Cziffra

Died in 1989

Géza von Cziffra (1900-1989) was born in Arad, then in Hungary. A journalist in Budapest, Vienna and Berlin, assistant to Alexander Korda at Sascha, he became a screenwriter and playwright, and directed more than seventy films. In 1945, in Prague, he had an SS officer who was getting in the way of his work barred from the set; arrested shortly afterwards by the Gestapo, accused of having eaten in a restaurant without ration tickets, he was sentenced to six months in prison and released in April. He then founded his own production companies, in Vienna and then in Hamburg, and published his memoirs in 1975.

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