Fourteen Lives

Sep 2, 1954

1h 38m

★ 0.0

Overview

September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Hunnia Filmstúdió

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Cast

Narrator

Zoltán Várkonyi

Jancsó

Iván Darvas

Szika

János Görbe

Ambrus

Béla Barsi

Bóna

Bertalan Šolti

Varjas Tóni

László Bánhidy

Balázs József

Lajos Rajczy

Virágh Anna

Katalin Berek

Balogh

Sándor Kőmíves

Sanyi

Sándor Géza

Gáspár

Sándor Peti

Gossner

József Vándor

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