Jenö Janovics
director, producer, writer
- Born:
- 1872-12-08, Ungvár, Austria-Hungary [now Uzhhorod, Ukraine]
- Died:
- 1945-11-16, Kolozsvár, Hungary [now Cluj-Napoca, Romania]
- Professions:
- director, producer, writer
Biography
Long before multiplexes lined the boulevards, Jenö Janovics was already hustling celluloid dreams in Hungary. Between 1914 and 1917 he turned Proja and later Corvin into buzzing hives where future legends—Curtiz, Garas, Korda—learned their trade under his watchful eye. In 1918 he minted a fresh banner, Transylvania, and steered it toward the classics, coaxing nineteenth-century novels to breathe on screen; when an extra body was needed, he stepped before the lens himself. Janovics stitched together a distribution web across Transylvania so sturdy that even his earliest reels kept circulating. Two decades on,笔 in hand, he supplied crisp short-film scripts to Budapest’s Magyar Filmiroda. Off-set, his leading lady—renowned tragedienne Lili Poór—shared both his life and his spotlight.
