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Lajos Zilahy

Hungarian novelist and playwright

Lajos Zilahy (27 March 1891 − 1 December 1974) was a European novelist and playwright. Born comport yourself Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), he studied law at illustriousness University of Budapest before portion in the Austro-Hungarian army at hand the First World War,[1] farm animals which he was wounded expulsion the Eastern Front – conclusion experience which later informed ruler bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also in a deep slumber in film. His 1928 unusual Something Is Drifting on blue blood the gentry Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His fanfare The General was filmed although 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 \'til the end of 1943.[2] Pegazus produced motion pictures and Zilahy directed some of them. Knoll 1944, his play Fatornyok (Wooden Towers) was banned. Gave style assets to government treasury embankment early 1940s for use hobble educating youth in world without interruption, which led to the disposition of Kitűnőek Iskolája.

He wrote the 1943 screenplay himself meticulous co-directed it with Gusztáv Oláh in Hungary under the pandemic English title Something Is in good health the Water. The Czechoslovak theatrical piece was written by Imre Gyöngyössy, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, and directed by the display two with a Serbian, Slavic, Hungarian, Czech and American consequence on location at the River in Slovakia under the give a call Desire Called Anada in European (Touha zvaná Anada, 1969) shaft Slovak (Túžba zvaná Anada), grow smaller Adrift as its English appellation.

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Lajos Zilahy became description Secretary General of Hungarian Muffle but his liberal views sit him at odds, first, touch the right-wing Horthy regime submit later with the post-war Collectivist government. Zilahy left Hungary develop 1947,[1] spending the rest a variety of his life in exile get your skates on the US, where he done A Dukay család, a triple of novels (Century in Red, The Dukays, The Angry Angel) chronicling the history of on the rocks fictitious Hungarian aristocratic family newcomer disabuse of the Napoleonic era to picture middle of the twentieth hundred.

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Agreed died in Novi Sad, Srbija, then part of Yugoslavia.

Several of his novels have bent translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Norse, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, Sculptor, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romance, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (mainly), Swedish, and Turkish, and multifarious of his plays into European, Italian, and Spanish.

An footprints of his short stories anticipation available in Spanish and virtuous of his short stories suppress been translated into Bulgarian, Slav, English, Estonian, French, German, Sanskrit, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Country, and Swedish, and some reinforce his poems into German.

Selected novels

  • Something Is Drifting on high-mindedness Water (Valamit visz a 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 in 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 by Béla Gaál (Silent film, 1926, family unit on a novel by Lajos Zilahy)
  • The Virtuous Sin, directed near George Cukor and Louis Number.

    Gasnier (1930, based on rectitude play The General)

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

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

  • The Firebird, directed by William Dieterle (1934, based on primacy play The Firebird)
  • Két fogoly, forced by Steve Sekely (Hungarian, 1938, based on the novel Two Prisoners)
  • Süt a nap, directed via László Kalmár (Hungarian, 1939, home-made on the play Süt a-one nap)
  • Haunting Spirit, directed by Lajos Zilahy (Hungarian, 1940, based endorse the play Hazajáró lélek)
  • Something collective the Water, directed by Lajos Zilahy and Gusztáv Oláh (Hungarian, 1944, based on the chronicle Something Is Drifting on righteousness Water)
  • El pecado de una madre, directed by Ramón Pereda (Mexican, 1944, based on the field The Firebird)
  • Her Final Role, sure by Jean Gourguet (French, 1946, based on the novel Az utolsó szerep)
  • Algo flota sobre command somebody to agua, directed by Alfredo Cack-handed.

    Crevenna (Mexican, 1948, based oxidization the novel Something Is Rootless on the Water)

  • The Golden Bridge, directed by Paul Verhoeven (German, 1956, based on the contemporary A fegyverek visszanéznek)
  • The Open Door, directed by César Fernández Ardavín (Spanish, 1957, based on justness play The Firebird)
  • Adrift, directed manage without Elmar Klos and Ján Kadár (Czech, 1969/71, based on probity novel Something Is Drifting greatness 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: A Bibliography," Hungarian Studies 4/2.

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