''Crime at Dawn'' or ''Assassination Attempt'' (Hungarian: ''Merénylet'') is a 1960 Hungarian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Zoltán Várkonyi
Zoltán Várkonyi (13 May 1912 – 10 April 1979) was a Hungarian actor and film director. In 1961, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. Four years later, he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow Intern ...
and starring
Lajos Básti
Lajos Básti (17 November 1911 – 1 June 1977) was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1935 to 1977.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1911 births
1977 deaths
Hungarian male film actors
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,
Irén Psota
Irén Psota (28 March 1929 – 25 February 2016) was a Hungarian actress, who received two Kossuth Awards.
Life
Irén Psota was born on 28 March 1929. She was a Hungarian actress and singer. Her parents were István Psota and Ilona Dávid. S ...
and
Antal Páger.
[Rîpeanu p.61] It was shot at the
Hunnia Studios
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 compa ...
in
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 ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director István Básthy.
Cast
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Lajos Básti
Lajos Básti (17 November 1911 – 1 June 1977) was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1935 to 1977.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1911 births
1977 deaths
Hungarian male film actors
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as Marschalkó Julius
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Irén Psota
Irén Psota (28 March 1929 – 25 February 2016) was a Hungarian actress, who received two Kossuth Awards.
Life
Irén Psota was born on 28 March 1929. She was a Hungarian actress and singer. Her parents were István Psota and Ilona Dávid. S ...
as Lonci
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Antal Páger as Havel - nyugdijas nyomozó
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Tamás Major
Tamás Major (26 January 1910 – 13 April 1986) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He also acted as the director of the Hungarian National Theatre from 1945 to 1962.
Selected filmography
* ''A szüz és a gödölye'' (1941) - István, Hube ...
as Halmágyi
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Nóra Tábori as Marschalkóné
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Oszkár Ascher as Fischbaum
*
Emese Balogh
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Zoltán Basilides Zoltán () is a Hungarian masculine given name. The name days for this name are 8 March and 23 June in Hungary, and 7 April in Slovakia.
Zoltána is the feminine version.
Notable people
* Zoltán of Hungary
* Zoltan Bathory, guitarist of heavy ...
*
György Bikádi
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László Bánhidi
László Bánhidi (1906–1984) was a Hungarian actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Song of the Cornfields'' (1947)
* ''Treasured Earth'' (1948)
* '' Iron Flower'' (1958)
* '' The Smugglers'' (1958)
* '' Yesterday'' (1959)
* ''I'll Go to the Min ...
*
Anna Báró as Pénztárosnõ
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Endre Csonka
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Andor Dárday
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György Engel
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Anikó Gyõrffy
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György Györffy
György Györffy (26 September 1917 – 19 December 2000) was a Hungarian historian, and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, MTA).
Biography
Györffy was born in Szucság (Suceagu, today part of Baciu, Romania), Hungary the son o ...
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László György
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Gyula Horváth as Schwetz
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Ferenc Járay
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Gyula Kamarás Gyula may refer to:
* Gyula (title), Hungarian title of the 9th–10th century
* Gyula (name), Hungarian male given name, derived from the title
; People
* Gyula II, the ''gyula'' who was baptized in Constantinople around 950
* Gyula III, the ''g ...
*
József Kautzky
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Mária Keresztessy
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 may ...
Eszti néni
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Béla Kollár
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György Kálmán
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 Lászl ...
*
Sándor Kömíves
Sándor Kömíves (1897–1980) was a Hungarian stage, television and film actor.
Selected filmography
* ''Gül Baba'' (1940)
* ''Sarajevo'' (1940)
* '' Silent Monastery'' (1941)
* ''Sister Beáta'' (1941)
* '' Janika'' (1949)
* '' A Woman Gets ...
*
Ágnes Lelkes
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Erzsi Lengyel
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Tihamér Lázár
Tihamér is a masculine given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the o ...
*
Zoltán Makláry
Zoltán Makláry (16 April 1896, Budapest – 12 July 1978, Budapest) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize.
Selected filmography
* '' Stars of Eger'' (1923)
* '' Hyppolit, the Butler'' (1931)
* '' Spring Sh ...
as Szandai doktor
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Géza Márky Géza is a Hungarian given name and may refer to any of the following:
* Benjamin Géza Affleck
* Géza, Grand Prince of the Hungarians
* Géza I of Hungary, King of Hungary
* Géza II of Hungary, King of Hungary
* Géza, son of Géza II of Hung ...
*
Erzsi Orsolya
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Sándor Peti
Sándor is a Hungarian given name and surname. It is the Hungarian form of Alexander.
It may refer to:
People Given name
* Sándor Apponyi (1844–1925) was a Hungarian diplomat, bibliophile, bibliographer and great book collector
*Sándor Bo ...
*
Bertalan Solti
Bertalan is a Hungarian masculine given name, a cognate of Bartholomew. Individuals bearing the name Bertalan include:
* Bertalan Andrásfalvy (born 1931), Hungarian ethnographer and politician
* Bertalan Árkay (1901–1971), Hungarian modernist ...
*
Anni Soltész
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Lajos Sugár
Lajos () is a Hungarian masculine given name, cognate to the English Louis. People named Lajos include:
Hungarian monarchs:
* Lajos I, 1326-1382 (ruled 1342-1382)
* Lajos II, 1506-1526 (ruled 1516-1526)
In Hungarian politics:
* Lajos Aul ...
*
Sándor Suka
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István Szegedi Szabó
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 k ...
*
Antónia Szücs
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Árpád Téry
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Éva Tímár
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Klára Zakariás
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János Zách as Kiscelli
References
Bibliography
* Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. ''The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945''. University of California Press, 1980.
* Rîpeanu, Bujor. (ed.) ''International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Hungary (from the beginnings to 1988)''. Saur, 1981.
External links
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1960 films
1960s Hungarian-language films
1960 drama films
Hungarian drama films
Hungarian black-and-white films
Films shot at Hunnia Studios
Films directed by Zoltán Várkonyi
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