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''A Strange Role'' ( hu, Herkulesfürdői emlék, also known as ''Improperly Dressed'' and released in the US as ''Strange Masquerade'') is a 1976 Hungarian drama film directed by Pál Sándor. It was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear. The film was also selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 50th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot The film is about a young Hungarian Communist man, who ends up hiding from the country's White Russian oppressors in remote sanatorium, disguised as a woman in 1919. Cast * Margit Dajka - Öreg primadonna * Irma Patkós - Kegyelmes Asszony * Carla Romanelli - Olasznő * Dezső Garas - Reményi / Glück úr / Fényképész * Sándor Szabó - Wallach doktor * Endre Holmann - Galambos Sarolta / Kövesi János (as Holman Endre) * Hédi Temessy - Ágota kisasszony * Ildikó Pécsi - Mesternő * Mária Lázár - Füsthajú nő * Ági Margittay - Am ...
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Pál Sándor
Pál Sándor (born 19 October 1939) is a Hungarian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has directed 28 films since 1964. His 1976 film '' A Strange Role'' was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear. Selected filmography * '' Football of the Good Old Days'' (1973) * '' A Strange Role'' (1976) * ''Miss Arizona The Miss Arizona competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arizona in the Miss America pageant. Arizona has twice won the Miss America title. The first Miss Arizona, Anna Marie Barnett, was crowned in 1938. ...'' (1987) * '' Daughter of Darkness'' (1990) References External links * 1939 births Living people Hungarian film directors Hungarian film producers 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters Hungarian male screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub ...
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Mária Lázár
Mária Lázár (18 April 1895 – 1 October 1983) was a Hungarian film actress. She was born Mária Czartoriszky in Herkulesfürdõ, Austria-Hungary, and died in Budapest, Hungary. She was married three times: Ihász Lajos színész (1916–1946), Burger Antal, and Kiár András. Selected filmography * '' A Levágott kéz'' (1920) * '' Haus ohne Tür und ohne Fenster'' (1922) * '' Fehér galambok fekete városban'' (1923) * ''I defended a woman'' (1938) * '' Number 111'' (1938) * ''One Night in Transylvania ''One Night in Transylvania'' (Hungarian: ''Egy éjszaka Erdélyben'') is a 1941 Hungarian historical comedy film directed by Frigyes Bán and starring Zita Szeleczky, Mária Lázár and Antal Páger.Rozenblit p.213 It was based on the play '' A ...'' (1941) * '' Magdolna'' (1942) * '' Gerolsteini kaland'' (1957) * '' A Certain Major'' (1960) * '' Az orvos halála'' (1966) References External links * 1895 births 1983 deaths Hungarian film actresses Hungar ...
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1976 Drama Films
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party (1976), Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ...
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1970s Hungarian-language Films
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark ...
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1976 Films
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president. *March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' ''Star Wars'' science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights. *April 1 – ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there all around the world. *April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, '' Family Plot'', is released. *August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, ''The Shootist''. *August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. i ...
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List Of Hungarian Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
Hungary has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film every year since 1965. Only France has a longer unbroken streak entering the Foreign Oscar competition. The Best Foreign Language Film Award is handed out annually by the United States Academy Award for Best International Feature Film to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. Hungary's submission is selected annually by a Selection Committee of esteemed film professionals. Hungarian films have been nominated for Oscar awards ten times, and István Szabó's ''Mephisto'' won an Oscar. Hungarian films were nominated six times in eleven years, between 1978 and 1988. The next win came in 2015 with ''Son of Saul''. István Szabó has had his films selected to represent Hungary seven times between 1967 and 1992, more than any other Hungarian director. Four of his films were nominated for an Oscar, including one win. Zoltán Fábri's ...
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List Of Submissions To The 50th Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 50th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films produced outside the United States. The award is handed out annually, and is accepted by the winning film's director, although it is considered an award for the submitting country as a whole. Countries are invited by the Academy to submit their best films for competition according to strict rules, with only one film being accepted from each country. For the 50th Academy Awards, twenty-four films were submitted in the category Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Iran, Morocco and Venezuela entered the competition for the first time. The highlighted titles were the five nominated films. These films came from France, Greece, Israel, Italy and Spain. France won the award for ''Madame Rosa'', a drama by an Israeli director about Madame ...
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Márk Zala
Márk is the Hungarian form of Mark (given name), though outside Mark the Evangelist the name is quite rare as a given name in Hungarian. Notable people with the name include: *Márk Rózsavölgyi Márk Rózsavölgyi (; born Mordecai Rosenthal, 14 August 1787 – 23 January 1848) was a Hungarian composer and violinist. He has been called "the father of csárdás". Life and music Rózsavölgyi was born to a poor tradesman's family in B ... (1787–1848), Hungarian composer and violinist {{DEFAULTSORT:Mark Hungarian masculine given names ...
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Georgiana Tarjan
Georgiana is a Catalan, English, Greek and Romanian name. It is the feminine form of the male name George and a variation of the female names Georgina and Georgia. It comes from the Greek word Γεώργιος, meaning farmer. A variant spelling is Georgianna. List of persons with the given name Georgiana *Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), English hospital administrator * Georgiana Birțoiu (born 1989), Romanian footballer *Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840–1920), artist, wife and biographer of Edward Burne-Jones *Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806) *Georgiana Drew (1856–1893), American actress and comedian, a member of the Barrymore acting family *Georgiana Fullerton (1812–1885), English novelist, philanthropist, and biographer *Georgiana Harcourt (1807–1886), writer and translator *Georgiana Hill (1858-1924), British social historian and women's rights activist *Georgiana Goddard King (1871–1939), American Hispanist and medievalist *Georgiana McCrae (1 ...
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György Simon
György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László Almásy * György Apponyi, Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai, Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-10) * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * György Bárdy, Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * György Bessenyei, Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy, Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion * György Bulányi, Hungarian a Piarist priest, teacher, and leader * György Carabelli, Hungarian dentist * György Csányi, Hungarian athlete * György Cserhalmi, Hungarian actor ...
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András Kern
András Kern (born 28 January 1948 in Budapest) is a Hungarian actor, producer, writer, singer and comedian. Life In 1965 Kern produced a film with a friend, entitled ''Mi Lesz?'' (What will happen?), and subsequently won first prize in the 13th Hungarian National Amateur Film Festival. In 1970 he graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. (Hungarian) He has appeared in numerous films, has written and appeared in many radio sitcoms as well as in many popular Hungarian TV shows such as Heti Hetes and Activity Show. He dubbed Woody Allen in several movies. Selected filmography * '' Stars of Eger'' (1968) * ''141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence'' (1975) * '' A Pogány Madonna'' (1981) * ''Oh, Bloody Life'' (1984) * '' Out of Order'' (1997) * '' 6:3 Play It Again Tutti'' (1999) See also *Hungarian pop Hungarian pop is the pop music scene of Hungary. It is often associated with Rezső Seress's song "Gloomy Sunday" which was covered by numerous artists. The m ...
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Erzsébet Kútvölgyi
Erzsébet Kútvölgyi (born November 14, 1950) is a Jászai Mari Award and Kossuth Prize The Kossuth Prize ( hu, Kossuth-díj) is a state-sponsored award in Hungary, named after the Hungarian politician and revolutionist Lajos Kossuth. The Prize was established in 1948 (on occasion of the centenary of the March 15th revolution, the ...-winning Hungarian actress. Filmography *'' Misi mókus kalandjai'' as Sammy the Squirrel *'' Macbeth'' *'' Johnny Corncob'' as the Princess *'' The Little Fox'' as fox girl References External links * 1950 births Living people 20th-century Hungarian actresses Actresses from Budapest Hungarian stage actresses Hungarian television actresses Hungarian film actresses Hungarian voice actresses {{Hungary-actor-stub ...
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