Alexander Ferenczy

Alexander Ferenczy , as Sándor Ferenczy , (born July 16, 1895 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † March 1, 1931 near Berlin , German Empire ) was a Hungarian architect who was mainly involved in Austrian film productions in the 1920s.

Life

Villa Kenwin, La Tour-de-Peilz

He attended the University of Applied Arts in Budapest and also studied art in Vienna . Soon afterwards he came to the stage as a production designer and shortly after the end of the First World War he started working in Hungarian film. After a few decorations for films by director Márton Garas , Ferenczy went to Vienna in 1921, where he participated in several lavish historical and monumental productions, which were also staged by directors of Hungarian origin. For example in Alexander Korda's films Samson and Delila (1922) and A Sunken World (1922). In 1926 Alexander Ferenczy went to Berlin to continue his career there initially as a partner of professional colleague Andrej Andrejew . He later worked with Ferdinand Bellan from Vienna .

At the end of the 1920s, together with Hermann Henselmann , he planned the modern Bauhaus style Villa Kenwin in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, for the British writer Bryher .

Alexander Ferenczy died on March 1, 1931 in a car accident in the Berlin area.

Filmography (selection)

• 1919: A lélekidomár
• 1919: A 111-es
• 1920: Névtelen vár
• 1920: Végszó
• 1922: A sunken world / The tragedy of a lost prince's son
• 1922: Samson and Delilah
• 1923: Mistress of the Puszta / The portrait
• 1924: Hotel Potemkin / The Last Hour
• 1924: Max, the king of the circus
• 1926: The Queen of the Moulin Rouge / The Queen of the Moulin Rouge
• 1927: The Gypsy Baron
• 1927: The player
• 1928: Casanova's legacy
• 1928: Modern pirates
• 1928: Woman on fire
• 1929: my sister and me
• 1930: checkmate
• 1931: Help! Raid!

Web links

• Alexander Ferenczy at filmportal.de
• Alexander Ferenczy in the Internet Movie Database (English)