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Victor Trivas(1896-1970)

  • Writer
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  • Director
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Writer/director Victor Trivas is said to have worked with legendary Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, but some say that is an unconfirmed legend, as is his birth in Russia. Other sources say he was born to Hungarian parents in Switzerland, where he graduated with a degree in architecture. In the mid-'20s he moved to Berlin, where he worked as a scenarist on The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927). His directorial debut came with Hell on Earth (1931), which had a pacifist message that provoked political turmoil; the film was banned, confiscated and destroyed by Nazi authorities in 1940, and Trivas had to take refuge, first in Paris and, as the Nazi occupation engulfed France, in the US.

Nominated for an Oscar for writing the script of Orson Welles' The Stranger (1946), Trivas returned to Germany in 1959, from where he worked on-and-off in other American film productions.
BornJuly 9, 1896
DiedApril 12, 1970(73)
BornJuly 9, 1896
DiedApril 12, 1970(73)
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar

Known for

Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, and Loretta Young in The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger
7.3
  • Writer
  • 1946
Madeleine Ozeray in Song of the Streets (1933)
Song of the Streets
6.6
  • Writer
  • 1933
Aufruhr des Blutes
  • Writer
  • 1929
The Head (1959)
The Head
5.3
  • Writer
  • 1959

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Writer

  • Die Gejagten (1961)
    Die Gejagten
  • Donald May, Dorothy Provine, and Rex Reason in The Roaring 20's (1960)
    The Roaring 20's
  • Hast noch der Söhne ja...?
  • The Head (1959)
    The Head
  • Diamond Machine (1955)
    Diamond Machine
    • (adaptation)
  • The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
    The Secret of Convict Lake
  • Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews in Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • Boom in the Moon (1946)
    Boom in the Moon
  • Edward G. Robinson, Orson Welles, and Loretta Young in The Stranger (1946)
    The Stranger
  • Robert Taylor and Susan Peters in Song of Russia (1944)
    Song of Russia
  • Mimi Forsythe, Kathy Frye, Kent Smith, and Anna Sten in Three Russian Girls (1943)
    Three Russian Girls
  • The Mayor's Dilemma (1939)
    The Mayor's Dilemma
  • Madeleine Ozeray in Song of the Streets (1933)
    Song of the Streets
  • Mirages de Paris (1933)
    Mirages de Paris
  • Dolly Haas in Großstadtnacht (1932)
    Großstadtnacht

Art Director

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leonhard Frank, Fritz Kortner, Fyodor Otsep, Karol Rathaus, Anna Sten, Eugène Tucherer, and J. Fenneker in Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
    Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff
  • Der Henker
  • Evas Töchter (1928)
    Evas Töchter
  • Majestät schneidet Bubiköpfe (1928)
    Majestät schneidet Bubiköpfe
  • Édith Jéhanne in The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
    The Love of Jeanne Ney
  • Die Dame aus Berlin

Director

  • The Head (1959)
    The Head
  • André Lefaur and Irén Zilahy in Tovaritch (1935)
    Tovaritch
    • (uncredited)
  • Madeleine Ozeray in Song of the Streets (1933)
    Song of the Streets
  • Hell on Earth (1931)
    Hell on Earth
  • Aufruhr des Blutes

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    • July 9, 1896
    • St. Petersburg, Russia
    • April 12, 1970
    • New York City, New York, USA(stroke)

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