''A Plane Has Not Returned'' () is a 1944 Hungarian

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directed by Ágoston Pacséry and starring

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, Pál Jávor and

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.Rîpeanu p.109 It was shot at the

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. It is one of comparatively few contemporary Hungarian films directly portraying Hungary's involvement in World War II.

Synopsis

Lieutenant Gábor,

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drops

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Benkov behind enemy lines where he makes contact with his lover Marja who has infiltrated the partisans. All proceeds well, but on the new mission the play is shot at and forced to make a landing. Marja shelters them, and all three are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to get the vital information they had uncovered back to their own side.

Cast

as Marja * Pál Jávor as Gábor fõhadnagy *

as Benkov, hírszerzõ *

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as Mátyás *

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as Balthazár *

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as Õrmester *

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as Szakács *

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as Szovjet repülõs *

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as Százados *

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as Partizán *

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as Partizán * Ferenc Szabó as Rádiós * Yulius Zagoni as Ferike

References

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