Alexander von Antalffy

Alexander von Antalffy , Hungarian: Antalffy Sándor , (* 1887 ; † in the 20th century), was a Hungarian-German film director and actor who worked in Hungary and Germany.

Life

Antalffy played from 1913 in crime and adventure films, but also in serious dramas. As early as 1914 he appeared in the film The Traitor as the detective Battole. In 1916 he was seen in the detective film of the same name as the title hero Dick Carter alongside Käthe Dorsch and Rudolf Biebrach . In 1920/21, he played the 'smart, adventurous jack-of-all-trades' MacWood several times in the MacWood series by director Gernot Bock-Stieber .

His most important directorial achievement is likely to be the literary film adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Lulu, completed in 1917 for PAGU, the first to take on the material for the medium of cinema; Erna Morena played the title role, with Emil Jannings and Harry Liedtke at her side .

Immediately behind is the film version of the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy , filmed for Corvin Film in Hungary a year later , in German "The Little Lord", in Hungarian A kis Lord , in which he was also seen as an actor. The title role was played by the Hungarian child star Tibor Lubinszky , the screenplay was written by László Vajda based on the famous novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett , which was published in 1886. A copy with Dutch subtitles is available in the Nederlands Filmmuseum in Amsterdam.

In the same year Antalffy directed the film adaptation of the play Der Leibgardist by Franz Molnár , in which he also worked as an actor. The 'Comedy in Three Acts ' Der Leibgardist , in the original Hungarian title A Testör , was premiered in Budapest in 1911. In 1931 the material was realized as a sound film in the USA.

In the German adventure film Das Rätsel von Bangalor with Conrad Veidt , Harry Liedtke and Gilda Langer , he was co-director for Paul Leni in 1917 , who directed the lighting. The film was censored in December 1917, banned for young people and premiered on January 11, 1918 in Hamburg's Lessing Theater on Gänsemarkt .

In the film Das Goldene Buch (D 1919) he not only directed, but also created the set as the film architect.

His last well-known film A Dream a Life from 1924 seems to have been a remake of his film The Spook of Life , which was made in 1920 : in both films he played the same person, Marcus von Lutovic / Marcus von Ludovice .

Filmography

actor

• 1913: The secret of the tower
• 1913: The spider : Ernst Hübner
• 1914: The Flame Dancer
• 1914: The traitor: Detective Battole
• 1914: The million dollar collar
• 1914: Comedies of the Heart
• 1915: The player
• 1915: Cupid in the quarter
• 1915: Mobilization in the kitchen
• 1916: amaranth
• 1916: Mrs. Eva (after Alphonse Daudet)
• 1916: Dick Carter: Detective
• 1916: The Queen's Secretary
• 1916: Life a dream: husband
• 1916: The man in the mirror
• 1916: Under two different masks
• 1917: The second life
• 1917: The Princess of Neutralia, also: Your Highness the Dollar Princess
• 1917: Christa Hartungen: Fred
• 1918: A kis lord / Little Lord Fauntleroy: grandfather, Earl of Dorincourt (as Antalffy Sándor)
• 1918: A testör / The Life Guard (as Sándor Antalffy)
• 1918: The sign of Cain
• 1918: The second wife, based on the novel by Eugenie Marlitt , Baron Raoul von Mainau (as Alexander von Antalffy)
• 1920: The Haunting of life: Marcus of Lutovic
• 1920: The Invisible Thief (from the MacWood Adventure series): MacWood, detective
• 1920: The rays of death, also: the ray of death (MacWood series No. 1): MacWood, detective
• 1920: The Sign of the Malay (as Alexander von Antalffy)
• 1920: Moles (as Alexander von Antalffy)
• 1921: Poor Violetta
• 1921: The man in the closet
• 1921/22: The three from the street
• 1922: The herring gull
• 1923: The fall into the lion cage
• 1924: a dream, a life

Director

• 1917 Lulu
• 1918 A testör / The bodyguard
• 1918 A kis lord / Little Lord Fauntleroy
• 1918 The Bangalor Mystery
• 1919 The Golden Book (also architect)
• 1922 Buys Mariett shares
• 1923 The Typhoon Witch (also co-author: screenplay with Paul Reno )

Web links

• Alexander von Antalffy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alexander von Antalffy at filmportal.de
• Alexander von Antalffy at The German Early Cinema Database
• Balogh Gyöngyi: Lubinszky Tibor, az első magyar gyerekfilmsztár (Hungarian)
• "Lulu" on Paimann's film lists 1918

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. wiki: “In 1919 he started working as a director. His early works include several episodes from the Mac Wood series. These were stories that focused on a smart, adventurous jack of all trades. The script for his productions was regularly written by Bock-Stieber's wife (since 1917) Ada van Roon, and Alexander von Antalffy played the leading role in these films. "
2. ^ A poster by the graphic artist Josef Fenneker for the MacWood detective film "The Invisible Thief" with 'Alex v. Antaffy '[sic] (D 1920) at plakatkontor.de [1] : "The invisible thief" (Mac Wood adventure series). German premiere poster from 1920 (Kino Marmorhaus, Berlin) for the German silent film (1920) by Europa-Film-Compagnie mbH (Berlin). Directed by Gernot Bock-Stieber, actors including Alex v. Antalffy (as detective Mac Wood), Erner Hübsch, Hanni Reinwald, Ada van Roon (= Ada Bock-Stieber). Poster design by Josef Fenneker, Germany 1920. Printed by Dinse & Eckert, Berlin. Size 71.5 × 94.5 cm. Was folded, wrinkles slightly browned, laid on linen. Color ill. in: Filmplakate 1908–1932. Filmmuseum der DDR, Potsdam (GDR) 1986, p. 68 No. 86. Code 13094
3. ↑ Projektions-AG “Union”, cf. Jan-Christopher Horak in: Lexicon of film terms [2]
4. ↑ cf. wordpress.com [3] : “Lulú en el cine: En 1917 Alexander von Antalffy realizó una Lulú protagonizada por Erna Morena. Al año siguiente, en Hungría, Mihaly Kertesz (que será conocido luego en Hollywood como Michael Curtiz) realizó otra versión con el mismo título, con Claire Lotto. De 1919 fue la producción alemana Pandora's box, de Arzen de Cserepy, con la danesa Asta Nielsen. Y en 1923 dirigió Leopold Jessner en el mismo país Erdgeist (El espíritu de la tierra), de nuevo con Asta Nielsen. ”
5. ↑ GECD # 27218 names Ladisia Vojda [is female] as the author of the manuscript and a "Julius Török" as co-author
6. ↑ real Frances Elisa Hodgson (1849–1942), cf. A kis lord története at wssz.hu [4]
7. ↑ cf. wssz.hu [5] : Magyar film A kis Lord (Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1918): A regényből 1918-ban Lubinszky Tibor és Antalffy Sándor főszereplésével magyar filmváltozat is készäne. A film kópiája Amszterdamból kerält haza, holland inzertekkel.
8. ↑ First performance cinema opened in 1913 with a tier, elevator and rich equipment, 1000 seats, cf. filmmuseum-hamburg.de
9. ↑ at GCED # 42392 indicated with? 1920, since it was first mentioned in the First International Cinematographers Journal No. 7 and No. 11, 1920

Remarks

1. ↑ The name is certainly based on the heroic figure Nick Carter , who haunted the 'trash novels' since 1886, cf. engl. Wikipedia: Nick Carter , picture of a Nick Carter booklet at thrillingdetective.com [6] ; on the film cf. Dick Carter at filmportal.de , there also 20 stills from it
2. ^ Under the title The Guardsman based on a script by Ernst Vajda and Claudine West; Directed by Sidney Franklin. See. The Guardsman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
3. ↑ the role lists of both films are the same, cf. A dream of a life at filmportal.de to filmportal The spook of life at filmportal.de , both times directed by Gernot Bock-Stieber .