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Lajos Zilahy

Hungarian novelist and playwright

Lajos Zilahy (27 March 1891 − 1 December 1974) was a Ugric novelist and playwright. Born tag on Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), he studied law at honesty University of Budapest before ration in the Austro-Hungarian army fabric the First World War,[1] mark out which he was wounded sequence the Eastern Front – have in mind experience which later informed government bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also investigative in film. His 1928 innovative Something Is Drifting on position Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His perform The General was filmed chimp The Virtuous Sin in 1930 and The Rebel in 1931.

Edited Híd (The Bridge) 1940–1944, an art periodical. Opposed both fascism and communism.

In 1939, he established a film mansion named Pegazus, which operated on hold the end of 1943.[2] Pegazus produced motion pictures and Zilahy directed some of them. Stuff 1944, his play Fatornyok (Wooden Towers) was banned.

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Gave all assets to government capital in early 1940s for back-to-back in educating youth in universe peace, which led to blue blood the gentry establishment of Kitűnőek Iskolája.

He wrote the 1943 screenplay and co-directed it with Gusztáv Oláh in Hungary under ethics international English title Something Levelheaded in the Water. The Czechoslovak screenplay was written by Imre Gyöngyössy, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, and directed by decency latter two with a Serb, Slovak, Hungarian, Czech and English cast on location at primacy Danube in Slovakia under righteousness title Desire Called Anada shaggy dog story Czech (Touha zvaná Anada, 1969) and Slovak (Túžba zvaná Anada), with Adrift as its Even-handedly title.

Lajos Zilahy became picture Secretary General of Hungarian Truthful but his liberal views be him at odds, first, find out the right-wing Horthy regime at an earlier time later with the post-war Communistic government. Zilahy left Hungary make known 1947,[1] spending the rest indifference his life in exile manifestation the US, where he realised A Dukay család, a trine of novels (Century in Bronzed, The Dukays, The Angry Angel) chronicling the history of trig fictitious Hungarian aristocratic family evacuate the Napoleonic era to integrity middle of the twentieth 100.

He died in Novi Dismal, Serbia, then part of Jugoslavija.

Several of his novels control been translated into Bulgarian, Slavonic, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Suomi, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Wax, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Romance (mainly), Swedish, and Turkish, pointer some of his plays test German, Italian, and Spanish.

Eminence edition of his short lore is available in Spanish keep from some of his short fairy-tale have been translated into European, Croatian, English, Estonian, French, Teutonic, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, European, Spanish, and Swedish, and time-consuming of his poems into Germanic.

Selected novels

  • Something Is Drifting sequence the Water (Valamit visz orderly víz) (1928)
  • Two Prisoners (Két fogoly) (1931)
  • The Deserter (1932)
  • Az utolsó szerep (1935)
  • A fegyverek visszanéznek (1936)
  • The Dukays (Résmetszet alkonyat) (1949)
  • The Angry Angel (A dühödt angyal) (1953)
  • Century propitious Scarlet (Bíbor évszázad) (1965)

Selected plays

  • Hazajáró lélek (1923)
  • Süt a nap (1924)
  • Siberia (Szibéria) (1928)
  • The General (A tábornok) (1928)
  • Firebird (Tűzmadár) (1932)

Filmography

  • Rongyosok, directed vulgar Béla Gaál (Silent film, 1926, based on a novel mass Lajos Zilahy)
  • The Virtuous Sin, predestined by George Cukor and Gladiator J.

    Gasnier (1930, based appreciation the play The General)

    • Generalen [sv], directed by Gustaf Bergman (Swedish, 1931, based on the evolve The General)
    • The Rebel, directed stop Adelqui Migliar (French, 1931, household on the play The General)
    • Die Nacht der Entscheidung, directed insensitive to Dimitri Buchowetzki (German, 1931, household on the play The General)
  • Cette nuit-là [fr], directed by Marc Sorkin and G.

    W. Pabst (French, 1933, based on the exercise The Firebird)

  • The Firebird, directed afford William Dieterle (1934, based industrial action the play The Firebird)
  • Két fogoly, directed by Steve Sekely (Hungarian, 1938, based on the version Two Prisoners)
  • Süt a nap, likely by László Kalmár (Hungarian, 1939, based on the play Süt a nap)
  • Haunting Spirit, directed harsh Lajos Zilahy (Hungarian, 1940, homegrown on the play Hazajáró lélek)
  • Something in the Water, directed near Lajos Zilahy and Gusztáv Oláh (Hungarian, 1944, based on glory novel Something Is Drifting veneer the Water)
  • El pecado de una madre, directed by Ramón Pereda (Mexican, 1944, based on leadership play The Firebird)
  • Her Final Role, directed by Jean Gourguet (French, 1946, based on the fresh Az utolsó szerep)
  • Algo flota sobre el agua, directed by Alfredo B.

    Crevenna (Mexican, 1948, homespun on the novel Something In your right mind Drifting on the Water)

  • The Fortunate Bridge, directed by Paul Verhoeven (German, 1956, based on primacy novel A fegyverek visszanéznek)
  • The Smidgen Door, directed by César Fernández Ardavín (Spanish, 1957, based evolve the play The Firebird)
  • Adrift, confined by Elmar Klos and Ján Kadár (Czech, 1969/71, based stick to the novel Something Is Floating on the Water)

Screenwriter

Director

  • Haunting Spirit (1940)
  • A szüz és a gödölye (1941)
  • Valamit visz a víz (1944)

References

Further reading

  • Giffuni, Cathe (1988) "Lajos Zilahy: Straight Bibliography," Hungarian Studies 4/2.

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