Victor Trivas(1896-1970)
- Writer
- Art Director
- Director
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.
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.
