Melchior Lengyel

Melchior(Menyhért) Lengyel (January 12, 1880 – October 23, 1974 Budapest) was Hungarian playwright and film scriptwriter. He went by Melchior Lengyel in non-Magyar lands.

He was born in Lebovics Menyhért, in Balmazújváros city near Hortobágy, Hajdú-Bihar county, Kingdom of Hungary.

Works

• A csodálatos mandarin / The Miraculous Mandarin (1918-1919, orchestration by Bartók:1924)
• Ninotchka (1939)

See also

• Béla Balázs
• Béla Bartók
• Kurt Weill
• Ernst Lubitsch
• Billy Wilder
• Bertold Brecht
• Helene Weigel

External links

• Menyhért Lengyel at the Internet Movie Database
• http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/pgmnote.asp?nodeid=3144&callid=3025
• http://www.thehungarypage.com/filmartsandmedia.htm (53rd, English)
• http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/egyeb/lexikon/eletrajz/html/ABC09006/09405.htm (Hungarian)
• Magyar Rádió about Menyhert Lengyel (Hungarian)