Biography

Once World War II began, light cheerful escapist films were much in demand, and von Borsody was cinematographer for the romantic musical drama Wunschkonzert ("Request Concert"), one of the most successful films of the entire Nazi period. Ilse Werner plays a young Berliner, who patiently and trustingly awaits the return of the man to whom she is engaged, played by Carl Raddatz, ordered on a secret mission to Spain. The film was classified as "politically valuable", "artistically valuable", "valuable for the people", and "valuable for youth", and took 7.6 million Reichsmarks.

With the rise of the sound film he realised his last movies as a cinematographer with "Die Jugendgeliebte" (1930) and "Rivalen im Weltrekord" (1930). Afterwards Eduard von Borsody became a cutter for well-known movies like "Yorck" (1931), "Die letzte Vier von Santa Cruz" (1936) and "Stadt Anatol" (1936).

The director, cinematographer and writer Eduard von Borsody began his film career in the silent movie era as a cinematographer.

Among his first jobs were three films on which Mihály Kertész (later Michael Curtiz) carried out the production design for the Vienna-based Sascha-Film: an Arthur Schnitzler adaptation Der junge Medardus (1923), the romance Fiaker Nr. 13 and the artist's life Der goldene Schmetterling (both 1926).

The last film Borsody shot before the end of the war, the Gottfried Keller adaptation Jugendliebe fell afoul of the film censors and did not open until 1947.