After spending his childhood with his parents in Žatec near Prague, he moved to Vienna to study at technical high school.

[1] In 1900, he shot the visit of the emperor Franz Joseph and Queen Elisabeth to the town of Gödöllő, in Hungary.

[2] After his father's death, Lifka and his older brother Karl started a traveling movie theater.

Aleksandar Lifka shot documentary film of some political events, and of common people in the towns he visited.

Lifka visited Szabadka again in 1905, and in 1910, he renovated the grand hall of Hungaria Hotel into a permanent movie theater.