''A Bowl of Lentils'' (Hungarian: ''Egy tál lencse'') is a 1941 Hungarian
musical comedy film
Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...
directed by
Zoltán Farkas and starring
Katalin Karády
Katalin Karády (8 December 1910 – 8 February 1990) was a Hungarian actress and singer. A leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939–1945, she is best known outside Hungary as an awardee of the Righteous among the Nations hono ...
,
Pál Jávor and
Gyula Csortos.
[Rîpeanu p.114] It was shot at the
Hunnia Studios in
Budapest
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Imre Sörés.
Synopsis
Margit, a young woman from
Budapest
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, manages to get a job on a
rabbit farm under false pretences, using the
papers
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of her friend Irma. She is unaware that Irma is a distant relative of the elder owner, who plans to make her his heir.
Cast
*
Katalin Karády
Katalin Karády (8 December 1910 – 8 February 1990) was a Hungarian actress and singer. A leading actress in Hungarian movies made between 1939–1945, she is best known outside Hungary as an awardee of the Righteous among the Nations hono ...
as Horváth Margit
*
Pál Jávor as Rudasi Sándor, intézõ
*
Gyula Csortos as Kupits méltóságos úr
*
Manyi Kiss
Manyi Kiss (Born Margit Kiss; 12 March 1911 – 24 March 1971) was a Hungarian actress.
Career
She was born in Magyarlóna, Kolozs County, Hungary ''(now Luna de Sus, Romania)'', to Lajos Kiss and Zsuzsanna Nagy. She acted from 1926 in Cluj ' ...
as Papp Irma
*
Piri Peéry as A jószágigazgató felesége
*
Zoltán Makláry as Új rokon
*
Ilona Kökény as Rokon
*
József Juhász as Pali, a jószágigazgató fia
*
Oszkár Maleczky as Rokon
*
Sándor Pethes
Sándor Pethes (28 May 1899 – 29 June 1981) was a Hungarian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' Rongyosok'' (1925)
* '' Átok vára'' (1927)
* '' Csak egy kislány van a világon'' (1930)
* '' A kék bálvány'' (1931)
* '' Spring Shower'' (193 ...
as Lakáj
*
Marcsa Simon as Az intézõ szakácsnõje
*
Ilona Bánhidy as Kagits györgy rokona
*
Lajos Sugár as Jószágigazgató
*
Magdolna Féja as felbérelt nõ Rudasinál
*
Gusztáv Vándory
Gusztáv Vándory (6 December 1882 – 16 November 1964) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He was born and died in Budapest.
Selected filmography
* ''Lili'' (1918)
* '' Yamata'' (1919)
* '' Neither at Home or Abroad'' (1919)
* '' Veszélyben ...
as Orvos
*
Teri Járay as Munkásnõ az angóra-nyúltelepen
*
Sándor Solymossy
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It may refer to:
People Given name
* Sándor Apponyi (1844–1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector
* Sándor B ...
as Zsiga, Kagits rokona
*
Erzsébet Medgyesy as Kagits György rokona
*
Emmi Nagy Emmi may refer to:
People
*Emmi (Australian singer), singer-songwriter and voice of Blind Pig
*Emmi (Finnish singer), a Finnish singer-songwriter
*Emmi Dölling (1906–1990), a Czechoslovak/German political activist and journalist
*Emmi Welter (18 ...
as Kiszolgáló hölgy a büfében
*
Éva Serényi as Szobalány
References
Bibliography
* Juhász, István. ''Kincses magyar filmtár 1931-1944: az eredeti forgatókönyvből 1931 és 1944 között létrejött hazai mozgóképekről''. Kráter, 2007.
* Rîpeanu, Bujor. (ed.) ''International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Hungary (from the beginnings to 1988)''. Saur, 1981.
External links
*
1941 films
Hungarian comedy films
Hungarian musical films
1940s Hungarian-language films
1941 comedy films
1941 musical films
Hungarian black-and-white films
Films directed by Zoltán Farkas
Films set in Budapest
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