Géza von Radványi

Géza von Radványi
Radványi and his wife Maria von Tasnády
Born	(1907-09-26)26 September 1907 Kassa, Slovakia
Died	27 November 1986(1986-11-27) (aged 79) Budapest, Hungary
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1947–1980

Géza von Radványi (26 September 1907 – 27 November 1986) was a Hungarian film director, cinematographer, producer and writer.

Born Géza Grosschmid, he took the name Radványi from his paternal grandmother. His brother was the writer Sándor Márai. Géza von Radványi made his debut in journalism before moving to cinema in 1941. He aimed to create a popular cinema in the 1950s and 1960s that would rival Hollywood studios, due to European coproductions.

He began at the end of the 1940s, with Valahol Európában and Women Without Names, neorealist dramas with no concession to the ravages of war and the postwar period. During the 1950s, Radványi changed his style: L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard, with Michel Simon and Geneviève Page (1953), and, above all, the success of his remake of Mädchen in Uniform with Lilli Palmer, Marthe Mercadier and the young rising star, Romy Schneider (1958). He also made in the same decade Douze heures d'horloge (), a thriller based on a script by Boileau and Narcejac, with Lino Ventura and Laurent Terzieff, as well as a slapstick comedy, Mademoiselle Ange () with Romy Schneider and Henri Vidal (1959).