Springtime in Budapest

Apr 2, 1955

1h 39m

★ 8.0

Overview

At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Magyar Filmgyártó Állami Vállalat

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Cast

Pintér Zoltán

Miklós Gábor

Gazsó Bertalan

Tibor Molnár

Jutka

Zsuzsa Gordon

Karaganov fõhadnagy

Iván Darvas

Turnovszky

Gábor Rajnay

Turnovszkyné

Mária Mezei

Nusi Somogyi

Mária Lázár

Markó

Lajos Rajczy

László Bánhidy

István Somló

Sándor Pethes

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