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Hannibál Tanár úr
''Professor Hannibal'' (Hungarian: ''Hannibál tanár úr'') is a 1956 Cinema of Hungary, Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Fábri and starring Ernő Szabó, Zoltán Greguss and Manyi Kiss. The film is based on a novel by Ferenc Móra set in Budapest during the Interwar period. When a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthage, Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians. The film was chosen to be part both of Budapest Twelve, a list of Hungarian films considered the best in 1968 and its follow-up, the New Budapest Twelve in 2000. Release The initial popularity of the film is hard to judge as five days after it premiered on 18 October 1956 the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Hungarian Uprising began. It was re-released in 1957.Cunningham p.90-91 Partial cast * Ernő Szabó as Nyúl Béla * Zoltán Greguss as Muray * Manyi Kiss as Nyúl Béláné * Noémi Apor as Lola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltán Fábri
Zoltán Fábri (15 October 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a Hungarian people, Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His films ''The Boys of Paul Street'' (1969) and ''Hungarians (film), Hungarians'' (1978) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1965 film ''Twenty Hours'' shared the Grand Prix with ''War and Peace (film series), War and Peace'' at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1969 film ''The Toth Family'' was entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1975 film ''141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence'' was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival, where he won a Special Prize for Directing. Life and career Fábri wanted to become an artist from an early age on. He studied painting and graduated at the Hungarian College of Fine Arts. He began working in the Hungarian film industry in 1950 as a production designer. He directed his first film ''Vihar'' (''Storm'') in 1951. He became an int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world. It became the capital city of the civilization of Ancient Carthage and later Roman Carthage. The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of a Punic people, Punic empire which dominated large parts of the Southwest Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. The legendary Queen Elissa, Alyssa or Dido, originally from Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, is regarded as the founder of the city, though her historicity has been questioned. In the myth, Dido asked for land from a local tribe, which told her that she could get as much land as an oxhide could cover. She cut the oxhide into strips and laid out the perimeter of the new city. As Carthage prospered at home, the polity sent colonists abroad as well as magistrates to rule t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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) * '' The Blue Idol'' (1931) * '' Hyppolit, the Butler'' (1931) * '' Spring Shower'' (1932) * '' Flying Gold'' (1932) * '' Stolen Wednesday'' (1933) * '' The Ghost Train'' (1933) * ''Emmy'' (1934) * '' Romance of Ida'' (1934) * '' The New Landlord'' (1935) * '' Budapest Pastry Shop'' (1935) * '' St. Peter's Umbrella'' (1935) * '' Salary, 200 a Month'' (1936) * ''Son of the Pusta'' (1936) * ''Be True Until Death'' (1936) * ''Sensation'' (1936) * '' Viki'' (1937) * ''All Men Are Crazy'' (1937) * ''Tokay Rhapsody'' (1937) * '' The Borrowed Castle'' (1937) * '' My Daughter Is Different'' (1937) * ''Man Sometimes Errs'' (1938) * '' The Lady Is a Bit Cracked'' (1938) * '' Two Prisoners'' (1938) * '' Number 111'' (1938) * '' Young Noszty and Mary Toth'' (1938) * ''Rosemary'' (1938) * '' The Perfe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
György Kálmán
György () is a Hungarian version of the name ''George''. Some notable people with this given name: * György Alexits (1899–1978), Hungarian mathematician * György Almásy (1867–1933), Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László Almásy * György Apponyi (1808–1899), Hungarian politician * György Gordon Bajnai (born 1968), Prime Minister of Hungary (2009-10) * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP. * György Bárdy (1921–2013), Hungarian film and television actor * György Békésy (1899–1972), Hungarian biophysicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine * György Bessenyei (1747–1811), Hungarian playwright and poet * György Bródy (1908–1967), Hungarian water polo goalkeeper, 2x Olympic champion * György Bulányi (1919–2010), Hungarian a Piarist priest, teacher, and lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Bessenyei
Ferenc Bessenyei (10 February 1919 – 27 December 2004) was a Hungarian actor and singer. He began his career in the choir at National Theatre of Szeged in 1940 and became one of Hungary's most respected stage performers. As singer he appeared in ''My Fair Lady'' (as Higgins), ''Fiddler on the Roof'' (as milkman Tevje) and ''Zorba the Greek'' (as Zorba). He was a tall man with a deep, powerful voice. He was elected to the Revolutionary Council of the Hungarian Intelligentsia in the 1956 revolt and was not allowed to perform for two years. He was awarded the "Actor of Nation" in 2000. He appeared in 75 films between 1960 and 2001. His second wife was Hédi Váradi actress. Selected filmography * '' Full Steam Ahead'' (1951) * ''Underground Colony'' (1951) * ''Storm'' (1952) * '' Battle in Peace'' (1952) * '' Kiskrajcár'' (1953) * '' Young Hearts'' (1953) * ''Under the City'' (1953) * ''A Strange Mask of Identity'' (1955) * ''Professor Hannibal'' (1956) * ''By Order of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Béla Barsy
Béla Barsy, also credited as ''Barsi'' (24 January 1906 - 30 April 1968) was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1952 to 1968. Filmography References External links * 1906 births 1968 deaths Hungarian male film actors {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ödön Bárdi
Ödön Bárdi (5 January 1877, in Pilisborosjenő – 24 June 1958, in Budapest) was a Hungarian actor. Selected filmography * ''A Csodagyerek'' (1920) * ''Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1920 film), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'' (1920) * ''It Happened in March'' (1934) * ''I May See Her Once a Week'' (1937) * ''Tales of Budapest'' (1937) * ''Hotel Springtime'' (1937) * ''Azurexpress'' (1938) * ''Man Sometimes Errs'' (1938) * ''The Schoolmistress (1945 film), The Schoolmistress'' (1945) * ''Professor Hannibal'' (1956) External links * 1877 births 1958 deaths Hungarian male film actors Hungarian male silent film actors People from Pest County 20th-century Hungarian male actors {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oszkár Ascher
Oszkár is a Hungarian masculine given name, a variant of the name Oscar. Notable people with the name include: * Oszkár Asboth (1891–1960), Austro-Hungarian aviation engineer sometimes credited with the invention of the helicopter * Oszkár Beregi, also known as Oscar Beregi (actor, born 1876) (1876–1965), Hungarian-Jewish actor * Oszkár Frey (born 1953), Hungarian sprint canoer * Oszkár Gerde (1883–1944), Hungarian double Olympic team champion sabre fencer * Oszkár Jászi (1875–1957), Hungarian social scientist, historian and politician * Oszkár Kálmán (1887–1971), Hungarian operatic bass * Oszkár Maleczky (1894–1972), Hungarian operatic baritone * Oszkár Molnár (born 1956), Hungarian politician * Oszkár Nagy (1893–1965), Hungarian painter * Oszkár Seszták Oszkár Seszták (born 1965) is a Hungarian politician, National Assembly of Hungary, member of the National Assembly (MP) from Fidesz–Christian Democratic People's Party (Hungary), KDNP Szab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Gobbi
Hilda Emília Gizella Gobbi (6 June 1913 – 13 July 1988) was an award-winning Hungarian actress, known for her portrayals of elderly women. One of her most beloved performances was as Aunt Szabo in the radio soap opera ''The Szabo Family''. A resistance member during World War II, she attempted to facilitate the reconstruction of the National Theatre (Budapest), National Theatre by sponsoring a fundraising drive. Committed to her craft, she founded the Árpád Horváth Actor's College (1947), a home to care for elderly actors named after Mari Jászai (1948), a second actor's home named after (1950), the (1952), and bequeathed her Patkó Villa to the National Theater for the purposes of creating a theater. Early life Hilda Emília Gizella Gobbi was born on 6 June 1913 in Budapest, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to German-born, Margit (née Schneckenburger) and the Italian Hussar-turned industrialist, Ede Gobbi. Her paternal grandfather was Alois Gob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmi Buttykay
Emmi Buttykay (1911–1957) was a Hungarian stage and film actress. She often appeared onstage in operettas. She made her screen debut in the 1932 film '' Flying Gold'' and appeared in supporting roles. She enjoyed brief film stardom in Wartime Hungary in films directed by Viktor Bánky. After the war she appeared in ''Professor Hannibal'' in 1956.Töteberg p.289 The following year she died on a visit to London. Selected filmography * '' Flying Gold'' (1932) * '' Romance in Budapest'' (1933) * '' Address Unknown'' (1935) * '' Ball at the Savoy'' (1935) * '' Europe Doesn't Answer'' (1941) * '' We'll Know By Midnight'' (1942) * '' Makacs Kata'' (1943) * '' Kölcsönadott élet'' (1943) * '' I'll Make You Happy'' (1944) * ''The State Department Store'' (1953) * ''Professor Hannibal ''Professor Hannibal'' (Hungarian: ''Hannibál tanár úr'') is a 1956 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Fábri and starring Ernő Szabó, Zoltán Greguss and Manyi Kiss. The film is based o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian Revolution Of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; ), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by the government's subordination to the Soviet Union (USSR). The uprising lasted 15 days before being crushed by Soviet tanks and troops on 7 November 1956 (outside of Budapest firefights lasted until at least 12 November 1956).Granville, Johanna. The First Domino: International Decision Making During the Hungarian Crisis of 1956, pp. 94-195. Thousands were killed or wounded, and nearly a quarter of a million Hungarians fled the country. The Hungarian Revolution began on 23 October 1956 in Budapest when university students appealed to the civil populace to join them at the Hungarian Parliament Building to protest against the USSR's geopolitical domination of Hungary through the Stalinist government of Mátyás Rákosi. A delegation of s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest Twelve
The Budapest Twelve is a list of 12 Hungarian films considered the best from the period between 1948 and 1968. The films were chosen in secret ballot of the Hungarian film industry in 1968. Budapest Twelve The International Federation of Film Critics ''(FIPRESCI)'' held its annual conference in Budapest in 1968, the year that marked the 20th anniversary of the nationalization of the Hungarian film industry. On this occasion, the department of film critics of the Alliance of Hungarian Filmmakers choose the best 12 films in a secret ballot. The films were screened at the 4. Hungarian Film Week and one year later aired on the Hungarian Public Television. The full list of films: New Budapest Twelve In 2000, the Alliance of Hungarian Filmmakers and Television Directors along with the film and TV critic department of the National Association of Hungarian Journalists voted on the films they consider the best in the history of Hungarian cinema. The full list of films: Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
