Géza von Radványi
Géza von Radványi ( born September 26, 1907 in Košice as Géza Gros Schmid, † November 26, 1986 in Budapest) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Life
The son of the lawyer and later Vice Royal notary Géza Gros Schmid and brother of Sandor Marai worked as a journalist. In 1928, he was accredited to the League of Nations in Geneva. Beginning of the 30s he was the German film assistant director and scriptwriter. He mostly stayed in Berlin in 1939 and returned back to Hungary. Here he was able for the first time self- directing, with his wife Mary of Tasnady played the lead role.
In 1947 he attracted attention with Somewhere in Europe, an excited by Béla Balázs sensitive film about the spiritually uprooted postwar European youth. Because of this film Géza von Radványi was often entrusted in the following years the government work for ambitious projects, first in Italy and France and in 1954 in Germany, where he now lived.
Here he created the 1958 remake of Mädchen in Uniform and 1961, the two-part adaptation of the novel, it may not always be caviar. Even the colorful staging of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Congress has fun - a remake of The Congress Dances - was taken from him.
Géza von Radványi was married from 1930 to 1937 with Eva Daghofer, the daughter of Lil Dagover. Then he married the Hungarian actress Mary of Tasnady that received major roles in several of his films.
His grave is like that of his wife in the cemetery in Planegg near Munich.