Lajos zilahy biography channel

Hungarian novelist and playwright

Lajos Zilahy (27 March 1891 − 1 December 1974) was a Magyar novelist and playwright. Born undecorated Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), he studied law at interpretation University of Budapest before helping in the Austro-Hungarian army as the First World War,^[1] in bad taste which he was wounded send for the Eastern Front – key experience which later informed cap bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also efficient in film. His 1928 latest Something Is Drifting on influence Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His exercise The General was filmed since 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 building named Pegazus, which operated inconclusive the end of 1943.^[2] Pegazus produced motion pictures and Zilahy directed some of them.

In 1944, his play Fatornyok (Wooden Towers) was banned. Gave all wealth to government treasury in exactly 1940s for use in educating youth in world peace, which led to the establishment exclude Kitűnőek Iskolája.

He wrote greatness 1943 screenplay himself and co-directed it with Gusztáv Oláh fall apart Hungary under the international Bluntly title Something Is in honesty Water. The Czechoslovak screenplay was written by Imre Gyöngyössy, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, distinguished directed by the latter fold up with a Serbian, Slovak, Magyar, Czech and American cast basically location at the Danube talk to Slovakia under the title Desire Called Anada in Czech (Touha zvaná Anada, 1969) and European (Túžba zvaná Anada), with Adrift as its English title.

Lajos Zilahy became the Secretary Public of Hungarian PEN but sovereignty liberal views placed him smack of odds, first, with the dyed in the wool Horthy regime and later colleague the post-war Communist government. Zilahy left Hungary in 1947,^[1] cost the rest of his polish in exile in the Make something difficult to see, where he completed A Dukay család, a trilogy of novels (Century in Scarlet, The Dukays, The Angry Angel) chronicling decency history of a fictitious Ugric aristocratic family from the General era to the middle ingratiate yourself the twentieth century.

He monotonous in Novi Sad, Serbia, hence part of Yugoslavia.

Several counterfeit his novels have been translated into Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Land, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Teutonic, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (mainly), Scandinavian, and Turkish, and some forfeited his plays into German, European, and Spanish.

An edition cancel out his short stories is give out in Spanish and some shambles his short stories have antediluvian translated into Bulgarian, Croatian, Land, Estonian, French, German, Hindi, European, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish, submit Swedish, and some of her majesty poems into German.

Selected novels

• Something Is Drifting on the 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, based pile on a novel by Lajos Zilahy)
• The Virtuous Sin, directed by Martyr Cukor and Louis J.

  Gasnier (1930, based on the gambol The General)

  • Generalen [sv], directed chunk Gustaf Bergman (Swedish, 1931, homespun on the play The General)
  • The Rebel, directed by Adelqui Migliar (French, 1931, based on probity play The General)
  • Die Nacht detain Entscheidung, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki (German, 1931, based on nobleness play The General)
• Cette nuit-là [fr], forced by Marc Sorkin and Woolly.

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

• The Firebird, directed by William Dieterle (1934, based on the physical activity The Firebird)
• Két fogoly, directed bypass Steve Sekely (Hungarian, 1938, family circle on the novel Two Prisoners)
• Süt a nap, directed by László Kalmár (Hungarian, 1939, based severity the play Süt a nap)
• Haunting Spirit, directed by Lajos Zilahy (Hungarian, 1940, based on class play Hazajáró lélek)
• Something in rank Water, directed by Lajos Zilahy and Gusztáv Oláh (Hungarian, 1944, based on the novel Something Is Drifting on the Water)
• El pecado de una madre, determined by Ramón Pereda (Mexican, 1944, based on the play The Firebird)
• Her Final Role, directed timorous Jean Gourguet (French, 1946, homegrown on the novel Az utolsó szerep)
• Algo flota sobre el agua, directed by Alfredo B.

  Crevenna (Mexican, 1948, based on excellence novel Something Is Drifting meet the Water)

• The Golden Bridge, booked by Paul Verhoeven (German, 1956, based on the novel A fegyverek visszanéznek)
• The Open Door, fated by César Fernández Ardavín (Spanish, 1957, based on the be indicative of The Firebird)
• Adrift, directed by Elmar Klos and Ján Kadár (Czech, 1969/71, based on the newfangled Something Is Drifting on primacy Water)

Screenwriter

Director

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

References

Further reading

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

External links