''Istvan Bors'' (Hungarian: ''Bors István'') is a 1939 Hungarian
comedy film
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directed by
Viktor Bánky
Viktor Bánky (17 January 1899 – 13 March 1967) was a Hungarian film editor and director.
Selected filmography
Editor
* '' A Night in Venice'' (1934)
* '' Where the Lark Sings'' (1936)
* '' Fräulein Veronika'' (1936)
* '' Sein letztes Modell' ...
and starring
Antal Páger,
József Bihari
József Bihari (1901–1981) was a Hungarian actor.
Selected filmography
* '' St. Peter's Umbrella'' (1935)
* '' My Daughter Is Different'' (1937)
* '' All Men Are Crazy'' (1937)
* '' The Golden Man'' (1936)
* '' The Village Rogue'' (1938)
* ' ...
and
Klári Tolnay
Klári Tolnay (born Rozália Klára Tolnay; 17 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Hungarian actress. She received the Kossuth Prize in 1951 and 1952.
Life
Klári Tolnay (born Rózsi Tolnay) was born on 17 July 1914 in Budapest, as the da ...
.
[ Rozenblit p.213] It is based on a 1938 play by
Sándor Hunyady, and was screened at the
Venice Film Festival
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. The following year it was remade as an Italian film ''
Big Shoes
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'' starring
Amedeo Nazzari
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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 ...
s
József Pán
József Pán (1901–1956) was a Hungarian art director. Laura p.76 While he also briefly worked in Austria and Germany, most of his career was spent working in the Hungarian film industry designing film sets. He was active during the Horthy er ...
and
József Simoncsics
József Simoncsics (1908–1992) was a Hungarian art director. Rîpeanu p.128 He designed the film sets for a number of Hungarian productions during the 1930s and 1940s while based at the Hunnia Studios in Budapest.
Selected filmography
* '' Ist ...
.
Main cast
*
Antal Páger as Bors István
*
József Bihari as János
*
Klári Tolnay
Klári Tolnay (born Rozália Klára Tolnay; 17 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Hungarian actress. She received the Kossuth Prize in 1951 and 1952.
Life
Klári Tolnay (born Rózsi Tolnay) was born on 17 July 1914 in Budapest, as the da ...
as Ilonka
*
László Dévényi as Parasztfiú
*
László Földényi as Ügyvéd
*
Margit Ladomerszky as Kálmán felesége
*
Béla Mihályffi as Tulogdy Kálmán
*
Ferenc Pethes
Ferenc Pethes (1905–1979) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. Bondy p.90 A character actor, he appeared in supporting roles in more than a hundred Hungarian film productions. He also acted in a variety of theatre venues. He was the cousin of ...
as Prakszi
*
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 Ügyvédbojtár
*
Lajos Boray as Tiszttartó
*
Endre C. Turáni as Paraszt
*
Olga Eszenyi as Kati
*
Béla Fáy
Béla may refer to:
* Béla (crater), an elongated lunar crater
* Béla (given name), a common Hungarian male given name
See also
* Bela (disambiguation)
* Belá (disambiguation)
* Bělá (disambiguation) Bělá, derived from ''bílá'' (''whit ...
as Võlegény
References
Bibliography
* Judson Rozenblit. ''Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe''. Berghahn Books, 2005.
External links
*
1939 films
1930s Hungarian-language films
Films directed by Viktor Bánky
1939 comedy films
Hungarian comedy films
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