Géza von Cziffra (19 December 1900 – 28 April 1989) was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter. 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. Cziffra made films from the 1930s onwards, at first in Hungary, and from 1936 in Germany as well, where he was initially more active as a screenwriter. In 1945, in Prague, then occupied by the Germans, he made the film Leuchtende Schatten ("Glowing Shadows"). As adviser for the criminal police, he was assigned SS-Sturmbannführer Eweler, a member of the SD and brother of the actress Ruth Eweler. After some time, Cziffra banned Eweler from the studios for excessive and obstructive criticism. Shortly afterwards, he was arrested and taken to the Prague Gestapo Headquarters in the Pecec Palace, where he was accused of having eaten several times in the Czech restaurant "Neumann" without using ration stamps. He was eventually dispatched to Pankrác Prison, the remand and interrogation prison of Prague, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, beginning on 12 February. He was released from detention on 19 April, shortly before the end of the war. In 1945, in Vienna, Cziffra founded the first post-war Austrian film production company: Cziffra-Film. Principally, and for preference, he made light entertainment and musical films, with well-known German and Austrian actors such as Peter Alexander, Rudolf Platte, Senta Berger and Hubert von Meyerinck. 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 flavour (Heimatfilme). Cziffra also worked as an actor himself, and later in his life published a number of books. He was married to the actress Ursula Justin, who starred in six of his films in the 1950s. He died on 28 April 1989 in Diessen am Ammersee in Bavaria. His remains are interred in the crematorium in the Ostfriedhof, Munich.

Bobby Dodd greift ein

Banditen der Autobahn

Liebe nach Noten

Musikparade

Der schräge Otto

Die Fledermaus

Der müde Theodor

So ein Millionär hat's schwer

Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen

Der weiße Traum

Das singende Hotel

Der falsche Adam

Geld aus der Luft

Ein Stern fällt vom Himmel

Das haut hin

Kriminaltango

Ich bin kein Casanova

A Tale of Five Cities

Mädchen mit schwachem Gedächtnis

Der Vogelhändler

Die Abenteuer des Grafen Bobby

Salem Aleikum

An der Donau, wenn der Wein blüht

Charleys Tante

Schlag auf Schlag

Die Beine von Dolores

Tanz in der Sonne

Die gestohlene Hose

Das unsterbliche Antlitz

Peter schießt den Vogel ab

Kauf Dir einen bunten Luftballon

Junge Leute brauchen Liebe

Josefine - das liebestolle Kätzchen

Das süße Leben des Grafen Bobby

Lana - Königin der Amazonen

Als geheilt entlassen

Paradies der flotten Sünder

Egy éj Velencében

Der himmlische Walzer

Tanzende Sterne

Tante Wanda aus Uganda

Höllische Liebe

Nachtschwester Ingeborg

Gabriela

Hauptmann - deine Sterne

Die Dritte von rechts

Königin der Landstraße

Der bunte Traum

Die verschleierte Maja

Gefährliche Gäste

Ez a villa eladó

Szent Péter esernyője

Hundstage