Ladislao Vajda

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Ladislao Vajda (born August 18, 1906 in Budapest , † March 25, 1965 in Barcelona , Spain ; born László Vajda Weisz ) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter .

Live and act

Ladislao Vajda first worked in the film business in 1927. He wrote the script for the film Die Czardasfürstin , which was directed by Hanns Schwarz . Three years later he wrote the screenplay for the French film Tarakanova by Raymond Bernard . In 1932 he staged together with the British director Victor Hanbury with Where Is This Lady? his first film. In the same year he also made his debut as a film editor with the strip Once Upon a Time a Waltz . He repeated this activity only once in 1935 and 1936. In the 1930s he made other films, mainly in Hungary, but also two in England and one in Palestine.

Vajda was in Italy from 1939 and made three films there before settling in Spain in 1942, latinizing his name and making 16 films by the mid-1950s. During that time he also shot in Portugal, partly in Portuguese-Spanish co-productions ( e.g. O Diabo São Elas 1945), partly in productions of Portuguese films ( e.g. Três Espelhos 1947).

With his internationally best-known film Marcelino, pan y vino (1955), he created a work that made its breakthrough in the United States . Vajda shot his first German-language film (which is set in Switzerland), a co-production between Spain and Switzerland, with the also very well-known crime thriller Es Happened am Licht Tag from 1958. Vajda was involved as a writer on the script, the film was nominated for the Golden Bear . Four more German films followed. His last two works from 1963 and 1965 were again produced in Spain.

In 1960 he was awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize for the film A man goes through the wall . He won the Golden Bear for the 1956 film My Friend Enrico . A year earlier he had received the Silver Bear for The Secret of Marcellino , the German version by Marcelino, pan y vino .

His father was the screenwriter, theater director and dramaturge Ladislaus Vajda .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : 'In life, more is taken from you than given ...'. Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. P. 514 ff., ACABUS-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Ladislao Vajda in: A Companion to Spanish Cinema , by Bernard PE Bentley, 2008, page 94
  2. ^ Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português. 1895-1961. Editorial Caminho , Lisbon 2012 ( ISBN 978-972-21-2602-1 ). P. 127f
  3. ^ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português. 1895-1961. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2012 ( ISBN 978-972-21-2602-1 ). P. 426f
personal data
SURNAME Vajda, Ladislao
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vajda Weisz, László (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian director
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1965
Place of death Barcelona , Spain