''Machita'' is a 1944 Hungarian

spy Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...

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

Endre Rodríguez Endre Rodríguez (1899–1975) was a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. Vilmos p.206 After service in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War, he became a professional stage actor. During the silent era he first became interes ...

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 ...

Iván Petrovich Iván Petrovich ( sr, Иван Петровић, Ivan Petrović; 1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962) was a Serbian film actor and singer. He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly w ...

and

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) * ' ...

. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Ferenc Daday 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 ...

. It was Karády's last film until after the war, as she was arrested and accused of being a British agent.Cunningham p.44

Cast

as Machita *

as Szávody György, gyárigazgató *

as Török,mûvezetõ * Sándor Szabó as Kovács Gábor, mérnök * Beáta Barkóczy as Bözsi *

György Nagyajtay 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 Lász ...

as 23-as kém * Iván Molnár as 112-es kém *

Elemér Baló Elemér is a masculine given name, the Hungarian form of the Slavic Velimir, and may refer to: *Elemér Berkessy (1905–1993), Hungarian footballer and coach *Elemér Bokor (1887–1928), Hungarian entomologist * Elemér Csák (born 1944), Hung ...

as Kémfõnök * Sári Feleki as Titkárnõ a mulatóban * Denis Gajzágó as 'kis nõ' a Feketerigóban * Gusztáv Harasztos as Szávody György inasa * Lajos Kelemen as Rendõr *

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 ...

as Vörös fõmérnök * Mária Sterbinszky as Virágoslány

References

Bibliography

* Cunningham, John. ''Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex''. Wallflower Press, 2004. * Ostrowska, Dorota, Pitassio, Francesco & Varga, Zsuzsanna. ''Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

External links

* 1944 films Hungarian drama films Hungarian spy films 1940s Hungarian-language films 1944 drama films 1940s spy films Hungarian black-and-white films Films directed by Endre Rodríguez Films set in Budapest {{Hungary-film-stub