Victor Trivas
{{Short description|Russian-Jewish screenwriter and film director}}
Victor Trivas (July 9, 1896 – April 12, 1970) was a Russian-JewishSiegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211 screenwriter and film director.
He was nominated at the 1946 Academy Awards for Best Story for the film The Stranger.
Selected filmography
=Screenwriter=
- The Brothers Karamazov (1931)
- Mirages de Paris (1933)
- The Mayor's Dilemma (1939)
- Song of Russia (1944)
- The Stranger (1946) (story and adaptation only)
- Boom in the Moon (1946)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
- The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
=Director=
- Call of the Blood (1929)
- Hell on Earth (1931)
- On the Streets (1933)
- Tovaritch (1935)
- The Head (1959)
=Art director=
- The Woman from Berlin (1925)
- Eve's Daughters (1928)
- The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (1931)
Bibliography
- Langman, Larry. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking''. McFarland & Co, 2000.
- Phillips, Alastair. City of Darkness, City of Light: émigré Filmmakers in Paris, 1929-1939. Amsterdam University Press, 2004
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0873193}}
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Category:Russian male screenwriters
Category:Russian film directors
Category:German-language film directors
Category:Mass media people from Saint Petersburg
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Category:20th-century Russian male writers
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