 Her husband was freed and they then fled the country, relocating to Vienna, a logical choice since German was the second language of Hungary.This is where both changed their names, he to Alexander Korda and she, for obscure reasons, to "Maria Corda" - with a C. In Vienna, he started directing films by 1920, and the couple welcomed their only child, Peter Vincent Korda, in 1921.Corda soon became a star of the Austrian silent screen, directed by her husband in such epic films as "Samson und Delila" (1922) and Michael Curtiz's "Die Sklavenkönigin" (1924).