Victor Trivas

Victor Trivas (July 9, 1896 – April 12, 1970) was a Russian-Jewish^[1] 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

1. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), p. 211

External links

• Victor Trivas at IMDb