Sándor Tompa — Actor (6)

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Pista Dankó (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dankó Pista
director: László Kalmár actor: Pál Jávor / Erzsi Simor …
other title: Dankó Pista / Les Amours d'un tzigane
Pista Dankó falls in love with Ilonka Jáky, the beautiful blonde lady, so his old love, Rózsi, the wild gypsy girl, puts a curse on him. Ilonka elopes with Pista and they marry. They live in difficult circumstances, but Lajos Pósa takes up the talented young man. Pista wants to recover his legendary violin, which has fallen into the possession of a Russian prince, so he goes on a tour of Russia. Here he meets Rózsi, who has become a famous dancer and now has a hold on him too. Meanwhile, Pista falls ill and returns home to die. In his last hours, a package arrives from Rosie. He plays his last song with the returned violin.

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Dollar Daddy (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dollárpapa
director: Viktor Gertler actor: Iván Darvas / János Rajz …
other title: Dollárpapa
A heavily indebted schoolteacher raising two marriageable daughters is buoyed by rumors that his long-lost uncle in America is a millionaire, until the uncle’s unexpected arrival in poverty sparks a rush of creditors, patrons and fortune-seekers. Ambitious lawyer Jenő Szekeres orchestrates the deception so that the family, the town and himself profit from the false fortune, and even when the truth comes out, everyone, including Szekeres, now eyeing a political career, chooses to uphold the lie.

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Try and Win (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Civil a pályán
director: Márton Keleti actor: Imre Soós / János Görbe …
other title: Civil a pályán / Tribunaux civils …
Pista Rácz, bearer of the title "outstanding workman" is opposed to all forms of sport, and is especially antagonized by Jóska Teleki, a first-class sportsman, who seems to be a drawback for Rácz's brigade in terms of work quantity performance figures.

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Penny (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kiskrajcár
director: Márton Keleti actor: Ági Mészáros / Ádám Szirtes …
other title: Petit sou / Kiskrajcár …
The story of a young servant girl who comes to work on the construction site of a large-scale industrial settlement. She decides to embark on an independent life, runs away from her foster parents, gets on a train and sets out to earn money. Modest and shy, she joins the factory's group of "Stakhanovites" and soon makes new comrades. Her coworkers accept her into their team.