''Underground Colony'' (Hungarian: ''Gyarmat a föld alatt'') is a 1951 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
Károly Makk and
Mihály Szemes
Mihály Szemes (23 July 1920 – 3 October 1977) was a Hungarian film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the f ...
and starring
József Bihari,
Erzsi Orsolya and
Ferenc Ladányi.
[Wakeman p.318] 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
Art director is a title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, live-action and animated film and television, the Internet, and video games.
It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
Imre Sörés.
Cast
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József Bihari as Barla, mérnök
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Erzsi Orsolya as Barláné
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Ferenc Ladányi as Nyerges, a MAKIRT termelési felelõse
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Sándor Suka as Környe
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István Palotai as Simics
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Lörinc Deák as Államtitkár
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József Juhász as Öreg munkás
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Lajos Rajczy as Kristófi, ÁVH vezérezredes
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Gyula Benkö as Budai örnagy
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Antal Farkas as ÁVH õrmester
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Lajos Mányai as Dalton
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Andor Ajtay as Pápay
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László Földényi as Brudermann
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Zoltán Greguss as Forray
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Ferenc Bessenyei as Strumpf
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Ferenc Pálffi as Mitók
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István Somló as Shaweross
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Sándor Peti
Sándor Peti (1898–1973) was a Hungarian stage actor, stage and film actor.Nemeskürty & Szántó p.107 A character actor, he played supporting roles in many films. Of Jewish heritage, his career was restricted by the Anti-Jewish Laws imposed in ...
as Portás
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Emil Keres as Kovács
References
Bibliography
* Appplebaum, Anne. ''Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56''. Penguin UK, 2012.
* Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. ''The Most Important Art: Soviet and Eastern European Film After 1945''. University of California Press, 1980.
* Ostrowska, Dorota, Pitassio, Francesco & Varga, Zsuzsanna. ''Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories''. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017
* Wakeman, John. ''World Film Directors: 1945-1985''. H.W. Wilson, 1987.
External links
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1951 films
1950s Hungarian-language films
1951 drama films
Hungarian drama films
Hungarian black-and-white films
Films shot at Hunnia Studios
Films directed by Károly Makk
Films directed by Mihály Szemes
Films scored by István Sárközy
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