The Treasure of Swamp Castle

Apr 11, 1985

1h 16m

★ 7.6

Overview

Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Mór Jókai’s short books The Gypsy Baron (A cigánybáró) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release valve in his skull and a fat pig-loving baron, and of course, the good gypsies.

Genres

Animation

Family

Fantasy

Production Companies

Pannónia Filmstúdió

The Treasure of Swamp Castle Trailers

Cast

Jónás Botsinkay (voice)

András Kern

Szaffi (voice)

Judit Pogány

Old Witch (voice)

Hilda Gobbi

Feuerstein lovag (voice)

György Bárdy

Puzzola (voice)

Gábor Maros

Gáspár Botsinkay (voice)

Ferenc Zenthe

Ahmed Pasha (voice)

József Képessy

Arzéna (voice)

Judit Hernádi

Loncsár (voice)

László Csákányi

Menyus / Gazsi bácsi / Strázsa / Papagáj (voice)

János Gálvölgyi

Prince Eugene of Savoy (voice)

Sándor Suka

Adjutáns (voice)

András Márton

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