Viktor Tourjansky

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Victor Tourjansky,
around 1920

Viktor Tourjansky ( Russian Виктор Туржанский Wiktor Turschanski ; born March 4, 1891 in Kiev ; † August 13, 1976 in Munich ) was an international film director of Ukrainian origin. In film titles, his name is often given as Viktor Turzhansky or Vyacheslav Turzhansky .

life and work

Viktor Tourjansky started out as an actor in film, but was also regularly employed as a director from 1914 onwards. After the October Revolution he fled to Paris , where he was able to make eleven other films by 1925, notably with Les Films Albatros , a Russian film company in exile. In 1925/26 he worked as an assistant director on the 1927 production of Abel Gance's famous monumental film Napoleon . Through his compatriot Gregor Rabinowitsch , for whom he filmed the Jules Verne novel Der Kurier des Zaren (original: Michel Strogoff) in 1926, Tourjansky came into contact with German production companies as early as 1926. Until 1937 he shot in constantly changing locations in Germany and France, occasionally also in Great Britain and the USA.

After Viktor Tourjansky had already made the adventure film Stadt Anatol (with Gustav Fröhlich and Brigitte Horney ) for Ufa in 1936, which is now closely linked to National Socialism , he only worked in Germany from 1938 until the end of the war. Up until 1945 he made the crime films Tonelli and Orient Express , the political thrillers Secret Signs LB 17 and Der Gouverneur as well as a number of love films such as The Blue Fox , Illusion and Love Stories . Willy Birgel and Brigitte Horney often appeared in the leading roles of his films.

After the end of World War II Victor Tourjansky was his film career in Germany with successful films like The man who wanted to live twice , chased by the devil and heart without mercy continue, worked from 1958 but mostly in Europe.

Filmography

Unless otherwise shown, as director:

In Russia / in the USSR

  • 1913: Strashnaya mest - actor
  • 1913: Gore Sarry - actor
  • 1913: Obryv - actor
  • 1914: Simfoniya lyubvi i smerti
  • 1915: Zhenshchina vampire - also a performer
  • 1915: Syn strany gde tsarstvo mraka - also a performer
  • 1915: Skazka morya
  • 1915: Poymet kto lyubit - also a performer
  • 1915: Po trupam k schastyu - also a performer
  • 1915: Lyubov pod maskoy
  • 1915: Kak Kubyshkin stal kinoaktyorom
  • 1915: Bratya Karamazovy - also screenplay
  • 1915: Velikiy Magaraz - also a performer
  • 1915: Zagrobnaya skitalitsa - also a performer
  • 1916: Lyubov, shirokuyu, kak more vymestit ne mogut zhizni berega
  • 1917: Yvette
  • 1917: Prazdnik nochi
  • 1917: Ostrov zabeny - also a performer
  • 1918: Surogaty lyubvi - also screenplay, actor
  • 1918: Skertso diavola
  • 1918: Rai bez Adama
  • 1918: Obmanutaya Yeva
  • 1918: Bal gospoden - also screenplay
  • 1919: Irene Negludov
  • 1919: Grekh i iskuplenie - also a performer
  • 1920: Dracula

In France

  • 1921: L'ordonnance
  • 1921: Les contes de mille et une nuits
  • 1922: Le quinzième prelude de Chopin
  • 1922: La fille sauvage - actors only
  • 1922: Nuit de carnaval - also actor
  • 1922: La riposte
  • 1923: Le chant de l'amour triomphant
  • 1923: Calvaire d'amour - also screenplay
  • 1924: La dame masquée
  • 1924: Ce cochon de Morin - also screenplay
  • 1924: Le prince charming

International productions

  • 1926: The Czar's Courier (Michel Strogoff) - also screenplay
  • 1927: Napoleon - only assistant director
  • 1928: Volga-Volga
  • 1928: weather lights
  • 1928: The Adventurer
  • 1929: Manolescu
  • 1931: The Duke of Reichstadt
  • 1931: Le chanteur inconnu - also screenplay
  • 1931: L'aiglon
  • 1932: Hôtel des étudiants
  • 1933: L'ordonnance - also screenplay
  • 1934: Volga en flammes - also screenplay
  • 1933: La bataille - not named as a director
  • 1934: The Battle - not named as a director
  • 1934: Jeanne - only overhead line
  • 1935: The whole world revolves around love
  • 1935: Les yeux noirs - also screenplay
  • 1936: City of Anatol
  • 1936: Puits en flammes - also cut
  • 1936: La peur
  • 1937: nostalgia
  • 1937: Le mensonge de Nina Petrovna

In Germany (1938–1945)

Post war films

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Tourjansky, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Turschanski, Viktor; Turzhansky, Viktor; Turzhansky, Vyacheslav; Туржанский, Виктор (Russian); Туржанский, Вячеслав (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION international film director of Ukrainian origin
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1976
Place of death Munich