''Spiral Staircase'' (Hungarian: ''Csigalépcső'') is a 1957 Hungarian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Frigyes Bán
Frigyes Bán (19 June 1902 – 30 September 1969) was a Hungary, Hungarian screenwriter and film director. His wife was the actress Éva Vass.
Selected filmography
* ''The Unquiet Night'' (1940)
* ''Matthew Arranges Things'' (1940)
* ''One Night ...
and starring
Rudolf Somogyvári
Rudolf Somogyvári (born Rezső Skoda 1916–1976) was a Hungarian actor. He was the voice of Mz / X in the hit Hungarian animated program '' The Mézga Family''.
Selected filmography
* '' Viki'' (1937)
* '' Two Prisoners'' (1938)
* '' Money ...
,
Éva Vass and
Irén Sütö.
[https://port.hu/adatlap/film/tv/csigalepcso-csigalepcso/movie-30772] It was shot at the
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 the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Imre Sörés.
Cast
*
Rudolf Somogyvári
Rudolf Somogyvári (born Rezső Skoda 1916–1976) was a Hungarian actor. He was the voice of Mz / X in the hit Hungarian animated program '' The Mézga Family''.
Selected filmography
* '' Viki'' (1937)
* '' Two Prisoners'' (1938)
* '' Money ...
as Benkõ
*
Éva Vass as Edit
*
Irén Sütö as Márta
*
Béla Barsi as Ilosfay
*
Sándor Deák as Gerencser
*
Ferenc Kállai
Ferenc Kállai (4 October 1925 – 11 July 2010) was a Hungarian film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1952 to 2007.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1925 births
2 ...
as Ilosfay
*
Béla Károlyi
Béla Károlyi (; September 13, 1942 – November 15, 2024) was a Romanian and American gymnastics coach of Hungarian origin. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralized training system for gymnastics. One of his earlies ...
as Hangversenyen a közönség tagja
*
Ilka Petur as Nagymama
*
Sándor Tompa as Seszták
*
István Egri
István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to:
People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal
* Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first k ...
as Gerencsér Béla
*
Ilona Titkos as Hazainé a főbérlő
References
Bibliography
* Balski, Grzegorz . ''Directory of Eastern European Film-makers and Films 1945-1991''. Flicks Books, 1992.
External links
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1957 films
Hungarian drama films
1950s Hungarian-language films
1957 drama films
Hungarian black-and-white films
Films directed by Frigyes Bán
Films shot at Hunnia Studios
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