''Sleepless Years'' (Hungarian: ''Álmatlan évek'') is a 1959 Hungarian
drama film
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directed by
Félix Máriássy and starring
Éva Ruttkai,
Géza Tordy, and
Éva Vass.
[Rîpeanu p.91] It was shot at
Hunnia Studios in
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
. The film's sets were designed by
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Melinda Vasáry. It was screened at the
1959 Venice Film Festival.
Main cast
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Éva Ruttkai as Vilma
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Géza Tordy as Karesz
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Éva Vass as Irén
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Gábor Agárdi as Tóth
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Mari Törőcsik
Mari Törőcsik (born Marián Törőcsik; 23 November 1935 – 16 April 2021) was a Hungarian stage and film actress. She appeared in more than 170 films from 1956 to 2020. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festiva ...
as Kató
* Oszkár Ascher as Lisszauer igazgató
* István Avar as Tutó
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Béla Barsi as Mihalik
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Gyula Bodrogi as Cserna
* József Fonyó as Berczik
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Hédi Temessy as Lisszauerné
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Ferenc Zenthe as Knézits Jani
References
Bibliography
* Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. ''The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945''. University of California Press, 1980.
* Rîpeanu, Bujor. (ed.) ''International Directory of Cinematographers, Set- and Costume Designers in Film: Hungary (from the beginnings to 1988)''. Saur, 1981.
External links
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1959 films
1950s Hungarian-language films
1959 drama films
Hungarian drama films
Hungarian black-and-white films
Films shot at Hunnia Studios
Films directed by Félix Máriássy
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