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Two Girls On The Street
''Two Girls on the Street'' ( Hungarian: ''Két lány az utcán'') is a 1939 Hungarian film directed by André de Toth, one of his first features, based on a play by Tamás Emöd and Rezsö Török. Plot Two young women, a musician and a bricklayer, navigate their careers, friendships, and love lives in Budapest after running away from their home village. Cast Restoration ''Two Girls on the Street'' was selected for preservation by the World Cinema Project; the print was restored by Cinémathèque de Bologne and Immagine Ritrovata. The restoration premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022, this restoration was released as part of ''Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project Vol. 4'' alongside the 1948 Uday Shankar film '' Kalpana'' as spine 1147 in The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andre DeToth
Endre Antal Miksa DeToth, better known as Andre de Toth (born Endre Antal Mihály Tóth; May 15, 1913 – October 27, 2002), was a Hungarian-American film director, born and raised in Makó, Austria-Hungary. He directed the 3D film House of Wax (1953 film), ''House of Wax'', despite being unable to see in 3D himself, having lost an eye at an early age. Upon naturalization as a United States citizen in 1945, he took Endre Antal Miksa de Toth as his legal name. Early life Born in 1913 as Sasvári farkasfalvi tóthfalusi Tóth Endre Antal Mihály, de Toth earned a degree in law from the Eötvös Loránd University, Royal Hungarian Pázmány Péter Science's University in Budapest in the early 1930s. He garnered acclaim for plays written as a college student, acquiring the mentorship of Ferenc Molnár and becoming part of the theater scene in Budapest. Career De Toth segued from there to the film industry and worked as a writer, assistant director, editor and sometime actor. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Károly Vass (cinematographer)
Károly Vass (1896–1953) was a Hungarian cinematographer. He worked in Germany during the silent era where he was often credited as Karl Vass.Krautz p.147 Selected filmography * ''Casanova'' (1918) * ''Lili'' (1918) * ''The Hustler'' (1920) * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922) * ''The Island of Tears'' (1923) * '' Paganini'' (1923) * ''The Wonderful Adventure'' (1924) * ''Should We Get Married?'' (1924) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ''Ballettratten'' (1925) * ''Two and a Lady'' (1926) * ''The Island of Forbidden Kisses'' (1927) * '' The Hunt for the Bride'' (1927) * '' Vacation from Marriage'' (1927) * '' Intoxicated Love'' (1927) * '' Nameless Woman'' (1927) * ''Only a Viennese Woman Kisses Like That'' (1928) * ''Sweet Pepper'' (1929) * ''The Night Without Pause'' (1931) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1932) * ''The Call of the Jungle'' (1936) * ''Sarajevo Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сарајево, ; ''see Names of European cities in different languages (Q–T)#S, names in other la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hunnia Film Studio
Hunnia Film Studio was the largest and most significant sound film studio in Hungary until its nationalization in 1948. Its predecessor, Corvin Film Studio, founded by Alexander Korda in 1917, was the most important Hungarian silent film company, while its successor, Mafilm, became the largest Hungarian film company, still operating today. Foundation Corvin Film Studio was purchased at an auction by the state-founded Filmipari Alap (Film Industry Fund). On December 19, 1928, Hunnia Film Factory was founded in Budapest. Prime Minister, István Bethlen, was determined to consolidate the Hungarian film industry and restore its old prestige. Therefore, the film factory was equipped with the most modern, German technology. The rebuilt studio was handed over on April 28, 1931. The next day ''Kék Bálvány'', the first Hungarian sound film, was shot. Golden age By the early 1940s, Hungary had become the third largest film production country in Europe as well as Hungary's largest fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. Hungary has a population of nearly 9 million, mostly ethnic Hungarians and a significant Romani minority. Hungarian, the official language, is the world's most widely spoken Uralic language and among the few non-Indo-European languages widely spoken in Europe. Budapest is the country's capital and largest city; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs, and Győr. The territory of present-day Hungary has for centuries been a crossroads for various peoples, including Celts, Romans, Germanic tribes, Huns, West Slavs and the Avars. The foundation of the Hungarian state was established in the late 9th century AD with the conquest of the Carpathian Basin by Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Language
Hungarian () is an Uralic language spoken in Hungary and parts of several neighbouring countries. It is the official language of Hungary and one of the 24 official languages of the European Union. Outside Hungary, it is also spoken by Hungarian communities in southern Slovakia, western Ukraine ( Subcarpathia), central and western Romania (Transylvania), northern Serbia (Vojvodina), northern Croatia, northeastern Slovenia (Prekmurje), and eastern Austria. It is also spoken by Hungarian diaspora communities worldwide, especially in North America (particularly the United States and Canada) and Israel. With 17 million speakers, it is the Uralic family's largest member by number of speakers. Classification Hungarian is a member of the Uralic language family. Linguistic connections between Hungarian and other Uralic languages were noticed in the 1670s, and the family itself (then called Finno-Ugric) was established in 1717. Hungarian has traditionally been assigned to the Ugric alo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema Of Hungary
Hungary has had a notable cinema industry since the beginning of the 20th century, including Hungarians who affected the world of motion pictures both within and beyond the country's borders. The former could be characterized by directors István Szabó, Béla Tarr, or Miklós Jancsó; the latter by William Fox and Adolph Zukor, the founders of Fox Studios and Paramount Pictures respectively, or Alexander Korda, who played a leading role in the early period of British cinema. Examples of successful Hungarian films include ''Merry-go-round'', ''Mephisto'', ''Werckmeister Harmonies'' and '' Kontroll''. The early decades 1896–1901 Hungarian cinema began in 1896, when the first screening of the films of the Lumière Brothers was held on the 10th of May in the cafe of the Royal Hotel of Budapest. In June of the same year, Arnold and Zsigmond Sziklai opened the first Hungarian movie theatre on 41 Andrássy Street named the Okonograph, where they screened Lumière films using Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andor Ajtay
Andor Ajtay (1903–1975) was a Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning (1954) actor. Selected filmography * ''Lady Seeks a Room'' (1937) * ''I defended a woman'' (1938) * ''Two Girls on the Street'' (1939) * ''Orient Express'' (1943) * ''Two Wishes'' (1957) * ''Cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir. The meaning of ...'' (1963) * '' Imposztorok'' (1969) References External links * 1903 births 1975 deaths Hungarian male film actors 20th-century Hungarian male actors {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Cinema Project
The World Cinema Project (WCP), formerly World Cinema Foundation, is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and restoration of neglected world cinema, founded by Martin Scorsese. History Founded in 2007 as the World Cinema Foundation by American filmmaker Martin Scorsese, it was inspired by the work of The Film Foundation in the United States, a similar venture which Scorsese founded with George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood in 1990. ''Trances'', a music documentary about Nass El Ghiwane an influential Moroccan music group, was picked by Martin Scorsese as the inaugural release for the foundation; it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and at Djemaa el-Fna square in Morocco. Description and governance The World Cinema Foundation is backed by an advisory board "Filmmaker Council" which includes Martin Scorsese, Fatih Akin, Souleymane Cissé, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Frears, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wong Kar-Wai, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Cannes Film Festival
The 63rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the festival; films screened in competition compete for the Palme d'Or award. The award in 2010 was won by ''Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives'', a Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. This was determined by the festival's jury members who reviewed films screened in competition. American film director Tim Burton was the president of the jury for the international competition, and other members of the jury for that competition included actors, screenwriters and composers, such as Kate Beckinsale, Emmanuel Carrère, Benicio del Toro, and Alexandre Desplat. Other categories for films screened in competition that have their own separate juries for other awards are for Short Films and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, Europe, and the United States in 1920s and 1930s.DANCE VIEW; ONE OF INDIA'S EARLY AMBASSADORS , 6 October 1985.Reginald Massey (2004 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalpana (1948 Film)
''Kalpana'' () is a 1948 Indian Hindi-language dance film written and directed by dancer Uday Shankar. It is his only film. The story revolves around a young dancer's dream of setting up a dance academy, a reflection of Shankar's own academy, which he founded at Almora. It starred Uday Shankar and his wife Amala Shankar as leads and 16-year-old actress Padmini, making her screen debut. It also marks Usha Kiran's debut film too. ''Kalpana'' was the first film to present an Indian classical dancer in the leading role, and was entirely shot as a dance ballet and a fantasy. It was shown at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI-Goa) (2008), as a part of the section "Treasures from NFAI" (National Film Archive of India), with other "rare gems" from the archives. Cast * Uday Shankar as Udayan & Writer * Amala Uday Shankar as Uma * Lakshmi Kanta as Kamini * Dr. G. V. Subbarao as Drawing Master * Birendra Banerji as Noor * Swaraj Mitter Gupta as Ramesh * Anil Kumar Chopra as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
