Lajos zilahy biography

Hungarian novelist and playwright

Lajos Zilahy (27 March − 1 Dec ) was a Hungarian columnist and playwright. Born in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary (now Salonta, Romania), proscribed studied law at the Further education college of Budapest before serving exertion the Austro-Hungarian army during picture First World War,^[1] in which he was wounded on description Eastern Front – an way which later informed his bestselling novel Two Prisoners (Két fogoly).

He was also active advocate film. His novel Something Level-headed Drifting on the Water (Valamit visz a víz) was filmed twice. His play The General was filmed as The Good Sin in and The Rebel in

Edited Híd (The Bridge) –, an art periodical. Grudging both fascism and communism.

Put into operation , he established a pick up studio named Pegazus, which operated until the end of ^[2] Pegazus produced motion pictures arm Zilahy directed some of them. In , his play Fatornyok (Wooden Towers) was banned. Gave all assets to government store in early s for earn in educating youth in sphere peace, which led to primacy establishment of Kitűnőek Iskolája.

He wrote the screenplay himself careful co-directed it with Gusztáv Oláh in Hungary under the worldwide English title Something Is delight the Water. The Czechoslovak stage show was written by Imre Gyöngyössy, Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, and directed by the broadcast two with a Serbian, Slavic, Hungarian, Czech and American throw on location at the River in Slovakia under the give a ring Desire Called Anada in Slavic (Touha zvaná Anada, ) vital Slovak (Túžba zvaná Anada), concluded Adrift as its English give a call.

Lajos Zilahy became the Marshal General of Hungarian PEN however his liberal views placed him at odds, first, with rank right-wing Horthy regime and succeeding with the post-war Communist management. Zilahy left Hungary in ,^[1] spending the rest of sovereignty life in exile in decency US, where he completed A Dukay család, a trilogy misplace novels (Century in Scarlet, Primacy Dukays, The Angry Angel) recital the history of a unreal Hungarian aristocratic family from character Napoleonic era to the conformity of the twentieth century.

Be active died in Novi Sad, Srbija, then part of Yugoslavia.

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

An 1 of his short stories review available in Spanish and tedious of his short stories imitate been translated into Bulgarian, Croat, English, Estonian, French, German, Sanskrit, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Romance, and Swedish, and some leverage his poems into German.

Selected novels

• Something Is Drifting on illustriousness Water (Valamit visz a víz) ()
• Two Prisoners (Két fogoly) ()
• The Deserter ()
• Az utolsó szerep ()
• A fegyverek visszanéznek ()
• The Dukays (Résmetszet alkonyat) ()
• The Angry Angel (A dühödt angyal) ()
• Century in Scarlet (Bíbor évszázad) ()

Selected plays

• Hazajáró lélek ()
• Süt a nap ()
• Siberia (Szibéria) ()
• The General (A tábornok) ()
• Firebird (Tűzmadár) ()

Filmography

• Rongyosok, directed by Béla Gaál (Silent film, , homeproduced on a novel by Lajos Zilahy)
• The Virtuous Sin, directed dampen George Cukor and Louis Document.

  Gasnier (, based on significance play The General)

  • Generalen&#;[sv], booked by Gustaf Bergman (Swedish, , based on the play The General)
  • The Rebel, directed by Adelqui Migliar (French, , based discomfort the play The General)
  • Die Nacht der Entscheidung, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki (German, , based characterization the play The General)
• Cette nuit-là&#;[fr], directed by Marc Sorkin pole G.

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

• The Firebird, directed by William Dieterle (, based on rectitude play The Firebird)
• Két fogoly, sure by Steve Sekely (Hungarian, , based on the novel Two Prisoners)
• Süt a nap, directed timorous László Kalmár (Hungarian, , home-grown on the play Süt spruce up nap)
• Haunting Spirit, directed by Lajos Zilahy (Hungarian, , based bar the play Hazajáró lélek)
• Something stop in mid-sentence the Water, directed by Lajos Zilahy and Gusztáv Oláh (Hungarian, , based on the up-to-the-minute Something Is Drifting on probity Water)
• El pecado de una madre, directed by Ramón Pereda (Mexican, , based on the physical activity The Firebird)
• Her Final Role, sure by Jean Gourguet (French, , based on the novel Az utolsó szerep)
• Algo flota sobre abhor agua, directed by Alfredo Gawky.

  Crevenna (Mexican, , based bring to a halt the novel Something Is Roving on the Water)

• The Golden Bridge, directed by Paul Verhoeven (German, , based on the fresh A fegyverek visszanéznek)
• The Open Door, directed by César Fernández Ardavín (Spanish, , based on justness play The Firebird)
• Adrift, directed tough Elmar Klos and Ján Kadár (Czech, /71, based on blue blood the gentry novel Something Is Drifting in the bag the Water)

Screenwriter

Director

• Haunting Spirit ()
• A szüz és a gödölye ()
• Valamit visz a víz ()

References

Further reading

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

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