Trivia

His remains are interred in the crematorium in the Ostfriedhof, Munich.[.

Geza von Cziffra often wrote his scripts with alternate pen names. To his pen names belong Peter Trenck, Richard Anden, Albert Anthony, Karel Kubula, Enrique Anden, John Ferguson, Thomas Harrer and Horace Parker.

From the middle of the 60's he gradually retired from the film business. He wrote several scripts and became more active again as a writer.

When he began the movie "Leuchtende Schatten" (45) he was denounced during the shooting by a Nazi informer and he had serve a two-month lasting imprisonment in Prague. The movie kept unfinished.

Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania.

In the 50's he created a fullness of entertainment movies which had only one goal, to entertain the audience. His revues, criminal and entertainment movies influenced the 50's and 60's, beside it he also influenced the German music film with a dozen movies with singer Peter Alexander.

The director Geza von Cziffra began his career as a journalist in Hungary. In 1920 he went to Vienna where he continued working as a writer and author of two Hungarian Newspapers.

After the war he founded his own production company Cziffra-Film GmbH (1945-49).

Through the input of musicians like Bill Ramsey or Bully Buhlan the films mostly progressed to being musical revues with a local Austrian slant and flavor (Heimatfilme).

His first cinematical work came into being in 1922 with the title "Gullivers Reisen" - a puppet movie. But the movie had never been finished.

He went to Berlin in 1923, where he wrote for the Berliner Tagblatt and Welt am Abend. With his pen name Fritz Pirat he wrote about the Hungarian politic, besides he wrote film articles and pursued press works for different film companies.