Ladislao Vajda
Ladislao Vajda ( born August 18, 1906 in Budapest, † March 25, 1965 in Barcelona, Spain; native László Vajda Weisz ) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Life and work
In 1927, Ladislao Vajda for the first time in the movie business worked. He wrote the screenplay for the film The 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 there was a waltz. This activity he repeated only once each in the years 1935 and 1936. In the 1930s he turned more films, especially in Hungary, but also two in England and one in Palestine. From 1939 Vajda was in Italy and made three movies before he in 1942 settled in Spain, Latinized his name and there until the mid- 1950s turned 16 films (some in Portuguese co-production). With his well- known work It happened in broad daylight in 1958 Vajda made his first German film, a co-production with Spain and Switzerland. Vajda was involved as a writer on the screenplay, the film was nominated for the Golden Bear. It was followed by four more German films, but his last two works from the years 1963 and 1965 were re- produced in Spain.
In 1960, he was for the film A man goes awarded the Ernst Lubitsch Prize through the wall. For the 1956 film shot My friend Enrico, he won the Golden Bear. A year earlier he had won the Silver Bear for the drama The Secret of Marcellino.
His father was the screenwriter, theater director and playwright Ladislaus Vajda.