Félix Podmaniczky Explained

Félix Podmaniczky
Birth Date:	14 January 1914
Birth Place:	Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Date:	6 July 1990 (aged 76)
Death Place:	Munich, West Germany
Occupation:	Director, Screenwriter
Yearsactive:	1938–1961 (film)

Félix Podmaniczky (1914–1990) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.^{[1] [2]} The son of a baron by background, he was also known as Felix von Podmaniczky. In 1956 he fled Communist Hungary and settled in West Germany, where he made two documentaries.

Selected filmography

• Castle in Transylvania (1940)
• Queen Elizabeth (1940)
• Seven Plum Trees (1940)
• The Relative of His Excellency (1941)
• The Marriage Market (1941)
• Three Bells (1941)
• Gentryfészek (1942)
• Dream Waltz (1943)
• Lejtön (1944)

Bibliography

• Frey, David. Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929-1944. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
• Rîpeanu, Bujor. (ed.) International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Hungary (from the beginnings to 1988). Saur, 1981.

Notes and References

1. Frey p.242
2. Rîpeanu p.21