Victor Trivas
Victor Trivas (July 9, 1896 – April 12, 1970) was a Russian-Jewish screenwriter and film director. He was nominated at the 1946 Academy Awards for Best Story for the film The Stranger.
Victor Trivas
- Born
- 1896 · Saint Petersburg.
- Died
- 1970 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States · Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- screenwriter · production designer · director
- Languages
- German
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Victor Trivas (July 9, 1896 – April 12, 1970) was a Russian-Jewish screenwriter and film director. He was nominated at the 1946 Academy Awards for Best Story for the film The Stranger.
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Director
Director
• Call of the Blood (1929) • Hell on Earth (1931) • On the Streets (1933) • Tovaritch (1935) • The Head (1959)
Art director
Art director
• The Woman from Berlin (1925) • Eve's Daughters (1928) • The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (1931)
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• The Brothers Karamazov (1931) • The Song of Life (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)
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- 1.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
- 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
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