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Ákos Ráthonyi
Ákos Ráthonyi (26 March 1908 – 6 January 1969) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 42 films between 1936 and 1968. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Munich, West Germany. He is widely considered one of the most prominent Hungarian filmmakers of his time. Selected filmography * ''Dream Love (film), Dream Love'' (1935) * ''Pay Up, Madam!'' (1937) * ''There Are Exceptions'' (1937) * ''The Lady Is a Bit Cracked'' (1938) * ''Wildflowers of Gyimes'' (1939) * ''Sarajevo (1940 Hungarian film), Sarajevo'' (1940) * ''Left-Handed Angel'' (1941) * ''Katyi'' (1942) * ''Once a Week (film), Once a Week'' (1942) * ''Kádár Versus Kerekes'' (1942) * ''Muki (film), Muki'' (1944) * ''Renee XIV'' (1946, uncompleted) * ''Unknown Sender (film), Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''You Have to be Beautiful'' (1951) * ''Don't Blame the Stork'' (1954) * ''Mrs. Warren's Profession (film), Mrs. Warren's Profession'' (1960) * ''The Devil's Daffodil'' (1961) * ''Beloved Imp ...
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Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ...
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Unknown Sender (film)
''Unknown Sender'' () is a 1950 West German comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Henny Porten, Bruni Löbel and Cornell Borchers.Parish p. 244 It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mathias Matthies. Cast * Henny Porten as Direktorin * Bruni Löbel as Magda Lehmann * Cornell Borchers as Dr. Elisabeth Markert * Käthe Haack as Frau Lehmann * Ursula Herking as Frau Bock * Marina Ried as Adele * Hans Richter (actor), Hans Richter as Dr. Alfred Braun * Volker von Collande as Fredy Brown * Paul Kemp (actor), Paul Kemp as Schuldiener Bock * Hubert von Meyerinck as Schmoll, Lehrer * Rudolf Platte as Lehrer Zirbel * Albert Florath as Professor Wagner * Willy Maertens as Herr Lehmann * Friedl Rostock as Dora * Ingeborg Körner as Brigitte * Ann Höling as Edith * Ilse Zielstorff as Rosemarie * Katharina von Miculicz-Radesci as Eva * Petra Unkel as Wilma * Ilse Gottburg as Claire * Gustl Busch as Stine * Änne Bruck a ...
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Hungarian Male Screenwriters
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1969 Deaths
1969 (Roman numerals, MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – USS Enterprise fire, An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. * January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. * January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separ ...
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1908 Births
This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time. Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean and is the 46th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130. * January 13 – A fire breaks out at the Rhoads Opera House in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, killing 171 people. * January 15 – Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first race inclusive sorority is founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. * January 24 – Robert Baden-Powell's '' Scouting for Boys'' begins publication in London. The book eventually sells over 100 million copies, and effectively begins the worldwide Boy Scout movement. February * February 1 – Lisbon Regicide: Ki ...
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Take Off Your Clothes, Doll
''Take Off Your Clothes, Doll'' (German: ''Zieh dich aus, Puppe'') is a 1968 West German comedy drama film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Anke Syring, Astrid Frank and Christiane Rücker.Eppenberger & Stapfer p.34 Synopsis A young woman from a wealthy background runs away from her parents' home to live with her boyfriend. However, when he discovers that her father has cut her off financially, he loses any interest to continue their relationship and abandons her. She ends up working in a rough strip club before she is eventually rescued. Cast * as Sylvia * Astrid Frank as Marianne * Christiane Rücker as Liane * as Rita * Linda Caroll as Jessica * as Andrea * Elisabeth Volkmann as Diana * Christine Schuberth as Christine * Annemarie Wendl as Garderobiere * as Micky * Michael Berger as Johannes * Michael Maien as Horst * Günter Stahl as Lorenz * Otto Stern :''Otto Stern was also the pen name of German women's rights activist Louise Otto-Peters ( ...
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Cave Of The Living Dead
''Cave of the Living Dead'' () is a 1964 German / Yugoslav horror film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi. The film was released as a double feature with '' Tomb of Torture'' in the US in 1966. Plot The local police in a sleepy mountain village in the Balkans are left at a loss after seven murders of women. Therefore, Interpol is asked to send an expert. His name is Inspector Frank Doren and he's an American. Doren finds that every time the power goes out in the village, a girl dies. After that, the corpses disappear. As soon as he arrived, the electricity went out again; even Doren's car won't start anymore. This time Maria is the victim, the cook at the inn where he is staying. Despite his attempts to disguise himself as a tourist, the entire village community soon knows that Doren was sent by Interpol, which doesn't make his job any easier. Doren continues his investigations, several more or less bizarre inhabitants are suspicious: for example the innkeeper who tried to force himsel ...
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The Phony American
''The Phony American'' () is a 1961 West German film. It stars William Bendix and Ron Randell. Cast * Michael Hinz as Helmut Krauss * Christine Kaufmann as Inge * William Bendix as Sergeant Harrigan * Ron Randell as Captain Smith * Karl Lieffen as Moritz References External links *''The Phony American''
at TCMDB 1961 films West German films Films directed by Ákos Ráthonyi 1960s German films {{1960s-Germany-film-stub ...
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Beloved Impostor (1961 Film)
''Beloved Impostor'' (German: ''Geliebte Hochstaplerin'') is a 1961 German comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Elke Sommer and Dietmar Schönherr. It is based on a play by Jacques Deval. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Albrecht Becker and Herbert Kirchhoff. It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg with location shooting aboard the ocean liner '' SS Hanseatic''. Cast *Nadja Tiller as Martine Colombe *Walter Giller as Robert Bolle *Elke Sommer as Barbara Shadwell *Dietmar Schönherr as David Ogden *Loni Heuser as Mrs. Ogden *Ljuba Welitsch as Celia Shadwell *Rainer Penkert as Ship paymaster *Frank Freytag as Mr. Stanford *Stanislav Ledinek as Adam, bodyguard *Manfred Steffen as Bernhard, bodyguard *Kurt Zips as Caesar, bodyguard *Edith Hancke Edith Hancke (; 14 October 1928 – 4 June 2015) was a German stage, film and television actress. Life and career Edith Hancke, daughter of a bank clerk, grew up in ...
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The Devil's Daffodil
''The Devil's Daffodil'' (also known as ''Daffodil Killer'' or / ''Secret of the Yellow Daffodils'') is a 1961 British-West German black-and-white crime film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi. The film was produced in an English and a German version, starring different actors in the lead roles but otherwise featuring an almost identical cast and crew. It starred William Lucas in the English version and Joachim Fuchsberger in the German one. Cast Production The film is based on the novel ''The Daffodil Mystery'' by Edgar Wallace. It was adapted for film by Egon Eis. The screenplay was written by Basil Dawson and Donald Taylor. The German dialogue was written by Horst Wendlandt and . Wendlandt was also co-producer along with Preben Philipsen (both of Rialto Film). Cinematography took place in April and May 1961 in London and environments. The studio was Shepperton Studios Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating bac ...
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Don't Blame The Stork
''Don't Blame the Stork'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Veronica Hurst, Ian Hunter, Reginald Beckwith, and Patricia Laffan. The movie was adapted from an earlier German comedy film. It was shot at Walton Studios with sets designed by the art director Ivan King. Plot A famous actor publicly declares that he loves babies, and soon a baby is left on his doorstep. As he is forced to take care of it, Katie O’Connor, an unsuccessful but stage-struck actress, pretends to be the child’s mother in order to live in the actor's house and to prove that she is a competent performer. Cast *Veronica Hurst as Katie O'Connor * Ian Hunter as Sir George Redway *Reginald Beckwith as Jonathan * Patricia Laffan as Lilian Angel * Brenda de Banzie as Evelyn Steele *Harry Fowler as Harry Fenn *Thora Hird as Agnes O'Connor * Mark Daly as Michael O'Connor *Howard Marion-Crawford as Fluffy Faversham *Avril Angers as Renee O'Connor Reception Hal Erickson of A ...
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