''At Midnight'' (Hungarian: ''Éjfélkor'') is a 1957 Hungarian
drama film
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directed by
György Révész and starring
Éva Ruttkai,
Miklós Gábor and
Zsuzsa Bánki.
[Portuges p.152] 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 ...
Melinda Vasáry
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Etymology
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. It was screened at the
1958 Venice Film Festival
The 19th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 24 August to 7 September 1958.
Jury
* Jean Grémillon (France) (head of jury)
* Carlos Fernández Cuenca (Spain)
* Piero Gadda Conti (Italy)
* Alberto Lattuada (Italy)
* Hidemi ...
.
Selected cast
*
Éva Ruttkai as Dékány Viktória
*
Miklós Gábor as Károlyi János
*
Zsuzsa Bánki as Ági
*
István Rozsos
István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to:
People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal
* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first ki ...
as Emil
*
Ferenc Baracsi as Róbert
*
Mária Sívó
Mária is a Hungarian and Slovak form of Maria (given name) or Mary (given name).
* The name is found in the Mária Valéria Bridge between Hungary and Slovakia on the middle of the bridge named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria and ma ...
as Viki mamája
*
Blanka Péchy
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as Ella néni
*
Gábor Rajnay
Gábor Rajnay (born Gábor Rezső Árpád György Uros Imre Joanovics; 11 May 1895 – 10 July 1961) was a Hungarian film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''The Officer's Swordknot'' (1915)
* ''Faun'' (1918)
* '' Number 111'' (1919)
* '' Yamata'' ...
as Jakab bácsi
*
János Õsi
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* János, male Hungarian given name, a variant of John
Places
* Janos Municipality, a municipality of Chihuahua
** Janos, Chihuahua, town in Mexico
** Janos Biosphere Reserve, a nature reserve in Chihuahua
* Janos T ...
as Szirtes Miklós
*
Margit Árpád as Zongorázó hölgy
References
Bibliography
* Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. ''The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945''. University of California Press, 1980.
* Portuges, Catherine. ''Screen Memories: The Hungarian Cinema of Márta Mészáros''. Indiana University Press, 1993.
External links
*
1957 films
Hungarian drama films
1950s Hungarian-language films
1957 drama films
Hungarian black-and-white films
Films directed by György Révész
Films shot at Hunnia Studios
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