Melchior Lengyel

출생 : 1880-01-12, Balmazújváros, Hungary

사망 : 1974-10-23

약력

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lengyel was born Lebovics Menyhért in Balmazújváros, Hungary. He started his career as a journalist. He worked first in Kassa (Košice), then later in Budapest. His first play, A nagy fejedelem (The Great Prince) was performed by the Thalia Company in 1907. The Hungarian National Theatre performed his next drama A hálás utókor (The Grateful Posterity) in 1908 for which he received the Vojnits Award from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, given every year for the best play. Taifun (Typhoon), one of his plays, written in 1909, became a worldwide success and is still performed today. It was adapted to the screen in the United States in 1914. His articles were often published in Nyugat (West), the most important Hungarian literary journal in the first half of the 20th century. During World War I, he was sent to Switzerland by the Hungarian daily newspaper Az Est (The Evening) as a reporter. His pacifist articles and other publications written in 1918 were also published in German and French papers and were collected in a book called Egyszerű gondolatok (Simple Thoughts). His story "The Miraculous Mandarin" (in Hungarian: A csodálatos mandarin), a “pantomime grotesque” came out in 1916. It is the story which inspired Béla Bartók, the famous Hungarian composer, to create in 1924 the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin. After World War I, Lengyel went to the United States for a longer stay and published his experiences in 1922 in a book Amerikai napló (American Journal). In the 1920s, he was active in the film industry. For some time, he was story editor at May-Film in Berlin. In 1929/30, he was co-director of a Budapest theatre. In 1931, he was sent by the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Napló (Pest Journal) to London as its reporter. The story of his Utopian novel A boldog város (The Happy City) came out in 1931; it was set in an American city that lay in the depths of a chasm created by the great Californian earthquake. He moved to Hollywood, California in 1937 and became a screenwriter. Some of his stories became worldwide successes, such as Ninotchka (1939), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story, and To Be or Not to Be (1942). Lengyel returned to Europe in 1960 and settled down in Italy. In 1963, he received the Great Award of Rome for his literary works. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Lengyel often visited Hungary and wanted to repatriate to his country. However, some weeks after his returning in 1974, he died in Budapest at the age of 94. The city library of Balmazújváros, his native town, was named after him in 2004. A complete list of Lengyel's works as well as the articles and references about him and his publications were compiled by one of the librarians on this occasion. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edwin Justus Mayer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

참여 작품

사느냐 죽느냐
Story
1942년에 나온 "사느냐 죽느냐"의 리메이크 영화. 배경은 막 폴란드를 나치 독일이 점령한 때로, 30년대식 쇼 극단을 운영하고 있던 극장주이자 배우인 주인공 부부가 한 폴란드군 조종사를 도와 나치 비밀경찰과 스파이 활동을 벌인다는 내용
Ninotschka
Screenplay
실크 스타킹
Writer
파리에 체류하고 있는 작곡가 피터 보로프를 송환하기 위해 비빈스키, 브란코프, 이바노프가 파리에 파견된다. 영화음악을 맡기로 캔필드와 계약한 보로프는 끌려가지 않으려 발버둥치고, 캔필드는 보로프의 아버지가 프랑스인이라고 거짓말을 하고, 그들까지 붙잡아둔다. 일이 이렇게 되자 소련에서는 사상이 투철한 요셍코를 특파사절로 파견하나 캔필드와 사랑에 빠진 요셍코는 하루가 다르게 변해가고, 영화 시사회 날, 둘은 결혼을 약속하게 된다. 그러나 둘 사이에 갈등이 생기게 되는데...
A Royal Scandal
Theatre Play
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
Days of Glory
Story
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
사느냐 죽느냐
Original Story
1939년 바르샤바. 그다지 유명하지 않은 배우인 조셉 투라와 폴란드에서 전국적으로 유명한 그의 아내 마리아는 반나치적인 연극을 공연하기로 하지만, 검열 때문에 뜻을 이루지 못하고 햄릿으로 대체하게 된다. 한편 젊은 파일럿인 스타니슬라프 소빈스키 중위는 마리아를 사랑하게 돼 밤마다 꽃을 보낸다. 마리아는 그에 대한 보답으로 분장실로 그를 초대해 조셉 모르게 둘만의 시간을 갖는다. 그러던 중 독일군이 폴란드를 침입하게 되고, 소빈스키 중위는 영국 공군 내의 폴란드 기병대로 근무하게 된다. 그곳에서 소빈스키 중위는 알렉산더 실레트스키 교수란 사람을 알게 되는데...
니노치카
Story
소비에트는 5개년 계획 수행 중 심각한 기아난을 겪게 되어 러시아 제국의 보석을 팔기 위해 세 명의 요원을 프랑스 파리로 파견한다. 보석의 원래 소유주 스바나 대공비는 보석을 되찾기 위해 애인인 레옹 백작을 요원들에게 보낸다. 레옹은 요원들이 보석을 팔지 못하도록 하면서 그들에게 자본주의의 온갖 쾌락을 제공한다. 모스크바에서는 냉정하고 완고한 열성당원 니노치카를 보내 보석을 회수하게 한다. 레옹은 니노치카를 유혹하여 이를 막으려 하지만 온갖 노력에도 불구하고 니노치카는 꿈쩍도 하지 않는데...
엔젤
Author
영국의 고위 외교관 프레드릭 바커의 부인 마리아는 부유한 생활을 하지만, 일에만 몰두하는 남편 때문에 마음 한 구석이 늘 허전하다. 한편, 혼자 파리에 간 마리아는 사교장에서 매력적인 앤서니를 만나고, 둘은 서로에게 이끌린다. 그러나 관계를 지속하길 원하지 않던 마리아는 조용히 앤서니를 떠나고, 그는 마리아를 찾아 헤맨다. 그러다 어느 사교 모임에서 프레드릭과 앤서니가 마주치고 만다. 할리우드 로맨틱 코미디의 대가 에른스트 루비치의 정교한 멜로 드라마. (2017년 영화의 전당)
Antonia
Theatre Play
The famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to Budapest to see again the operetta which revealed her and outlines a flirtation with an aviator engaged to her niece. The presence of mind of the latter pleasantly closes the adventure.
Caravan
Writer
A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
Caravane
Story
Princess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent. Swallowing his pride, Latzi agrees to the marriage, but soon the coy Countess falls in love with young Lieutenant de Tokay, who is himself in love with Latzi's gypsy sweetheart Tinka.
The Rise of Catherine the Great
Continuity
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
The Rise of Catherine the Great
Theatre Play
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
The Rise of Catherine the Great
Story
The woman who will become Catherine the Great marries into the Russian royal family when she weds Grand Duke Peter, the nephew of Empress Elizabeth. Although the couple has moments of contentment, Peter's cruel and erratic behavior causes a rift between him and Catherine. Mere months after Peter succeeds his aunt as the ruler of Russia, a revolt is brewing, and Catherine is poised to ascend to the throne as the country's new empress.
Polizeiakte 909
Writer
Strange Cargo
Story
On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)
Die berühmte Frau
Writer
Der Zigeunerbaron
Writer
Forbidden Paradise
Theatre Play
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
A táncosnő
Writer
The Typhoon
Story
Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is guillotined. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan. -From the TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.
The Typhoon
Theatre Play
Tokoramo, a Japanese diplomat on a mission to Paris, begins a love affair with Helene, a chorus girl, who subsequently rejects her American fiancé, Richard Bernisky. When the Japanese discover the affair, they try to force Tokoramo to end it, but Helene refuses to stop visiting him. One night, during one of her visits, Bernisky comes to Tokoramo's apartment and, while Helene hides, rebukes her to her lover. After Bernisky leaves, Tokoramo orders Helene out, but when he realizes his love for her, he calls her back. Suddenly, she rejects and insults him to the point that he strangles her. Tokoramo wants to confess his crime, but he must complete his work, and so his countrymen sacrifice a boy, Hironari, who pleads guilty to the murder and eventually is guillotined. In the end, Tokoramo also dies and his colleagues burn his valuable papers in order to protect Japan. -From the TCM.com Database, powered by the AFI.