Géza from Radványi
Géza von Radványi (born September 26, 1907 in Kaschau , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary (today Košice, Slovakia ) as Géza Grosschmid ; † November 26, 1986 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Life
The son of the lawyer and later royal deputy notary Géza Grosschmid and brother of Sándor Márai initially worked as a journalist. As early as 1928 he was accredited with the League of Nations in Geneva. In the early 1930s he became assistant director and screenwriter for German films. He stayed mostly in Berlin and returned to Hungary in 1939. Here he was able to direct himself for the first time, with his wife Maria von Tasnady playing the main role.
In 1947 he attracted attention with Irgendwo in Europa , a sensitive feature film inspired by Béla Balázs about the spiritually uprooted post-war youth in Europe. Because of this film, Géza von Radványi was often entrusted with directing ambitious projects in the years that followed, initially in Italy and France and from 1954 in Germany , where he now also lived.
Here he created the remake Girl in Uniform in 1958 and the two-part film adaptation of the novel It doesn't always have to be caviar in 1961 . The staging of the novel Onkel Toms Hütte and Der Kongreß ist amuses sich - a remake of Der Kongreß tanzt - was also taken over by him.
Géza von Radványi was married to Eva Daghofer, the daughter of Lil Dagover , from 1930 to 1937 . He then married the Hungarian actress Maria von Tasnady , who got leading roles in several of his films.
His grave is in the Farkasrét cemetery in Budapest, that of his wife in the cemetery in Planegg near Munich.
Their daughter Marika von Radvanyi (* 1949) is a Munich-based dubbing director and dialogue book author.
Filmography
- 1940: Erdélyi Kastély
- 1940: Zárt tárgyalás
- 1940: Sarajevo (co-script with Eugen Szatmari )
- 1941: Európa nem válaszol
- 1941: The talking coat ( A beszélö köntös )
- 1942: Only a woman loves like this ( Egy asszony visszanéz )
- 1947: Somewhere in Europe ( Valahol Európában , also co-script)
- 1949: Women without a name ( Donne senza nome , also co-script)
- 1953: A wonderful love ( L'étrange désir de M. Bard , also co-script)
- 1955: Ingrid - The story of a photo model (also co-script)
- 1955: Girls Without Borders (also co-script)
- 1957: Das Schloß in Tirol (also co-script)
- 1957: The doctor from Stalingrad
- 1958: girls in uniform
- 1958: Your crime was love ( Douze heures d'horloge , also co-script)
- 1959: An Angel on Earth (also co-script)
- 1960: I swear and vow
- 1961: And that's called life
- 1961: The ferris wheel
- 1961: It doesn't always have to be caviar
- 1961: This time it has to be caviar
- 1964: Uncle Tom's hut
- 1965: Congress is having fun (also co-script)
- 1975: Parapsycho - Spectrum of Fear (co-script only)
- 1979: Girls - the little rippers (only co-script)
- 1979: Circus Maximus (also co-script)
Web links
- Géza von Radványi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radványi, Géza from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radvanyi, Geza von; Radványi, Geza; Radvanyi, Geza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cash desk |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1986 |
| Place of death | Budapest |