Paul Czinner

Paul Czinner (30 de mayo de 1890 – 22 de junio de 1972) fue un escritor, director de cine y productor británico nacido en Hungría. ^{[ 1 ]}

Czinner nació en el seno de una familia judía en Budapest , Austria-Hungría . ^{[ 2 ]}

Tras estudiar literatura y filosofía en la Universidad de Viena , trabajó como periodista. A partir de 1919, se dedicó a la industria cinematográfica como guionista, director y productor. Czinner se comprometió con la actriz Gilda Langer a principios de 1920. Poco después de su compromiso, Langer sucumbió a la gripe española ; falleció el 31 de enero de 1920. ^{[ 3 ]}

In 1924, he offered the leading role in his film Nju to Elisabeth Bergner. They became partners. Both were Jewish, and after the Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler began to persecute Jews in Germany, the couple fled. They went first to Vienna, and then on to London, where they were married. Despite Czinner's homosexuality, theirs was a happy union, and one which enriched them personally and professionally. In 1934, he realised his film Catherine the Great, with his wife playing the main role. The film was not shown in Germany.

They emigrated to the United States in 1940, and worked on Broadway. After the end of World War II, they returned to England, where Czinner successfully adapted numerous operas—such as Don Giovanni and Der Rosenkavalier—to film.

Czinner died on 22 June 1972 in London, aged 82.^[4]

• Inferno (1919)
• Husbands or Lovers (1924)
• Jealousy (1925)
• The Fiddler of Florence (1926)
• Doña Juana (1927)
• Fräulein Else (1929)
• The Way of Lost Souls (released in USA as The Woman He Scorned) (1929)
• Ariane (1931)
• Dreaming Lips (1932)
• Ariane, Russian maid (1932)
• Mélo (1932)
• Catherine the Great (1934)
• Escape Me Never (1935)
• As You Like It (1936)
• Dreaming Lips (1937)
• Stolen Life (1939)
• Don Giovanni film from the Salzburg performance, based on Mozart's opera. (1954)
• The Bolshoi Ballet (1958)
• The Royal Ballet (1959)
• Der Rosenkavalier, based on the opera by Richard Strauss (1962)
• Romeo and Juliet, ballet film starring Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn (1966)

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