Rosie Barsony Movies
- 1937
Viki was adapted for the screen from the stage play by Adorjan Bonyi. Taking over from the stage version's Marika Roekk as the title character is Rozsi Barsony, an immensely popular Hungarian screen personality of the period. A headstrong, hoydenish young woman, Viki prefers to dress and act like a man. When she gets into an argument with the equally contentious Feri (Paul Javor), he fails to see through her disguise and challenges her to a duel, "man to man." Amazingly, the two antagonists go through with the duel -- whereupon Feri discovers Viki's true gender and instantly falls in love with her. Given Rozsi Barsony's voluptuous figure and omnipresent femininity, one can only assume that hero Feri is extraordinarily nearsighted. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rosie Barsony, Gyula Csortos, (more)
- 1935
Hallo Budapest was the first solo directorial effort of former editor-cameraman Lazslo Vajda. Essentially, this is "filmed radio," since the emphasis is on a collection of Budapest's top radio stars. There really isn't any plot, just a parade of specialty turns by such major Hungarian entertainers as Marie Nemeth and Anne Roselle. Since the Hungarian government controlled both the radio and the film industry, it wasn't hard to secure full cooperation from the major broadcast centers in the production of this film. Variety summed up the film's chances for worldwide distribution with a simple "Restricted to Hungarian trade" -- as if this actually needed to be said! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rosie Barsony
- 1935
Helyet az Oregknek (Room for the Aged) is a touching vehicle for jowly Hungarian character actor Szoke Szakall. The star is cast as elderly store-owner Uncle Polgar, who is invited to move in with the family of his nouveau riche son. He feels rather uncomfortable in his posh new surroundings and is further distressed by the fact that his other son seems destined to be a prodigal failure. When both sons get mixed up in a financial swindle, Uncle Polgar quietly bails them out, revealing that he's got more basic "smarts" than the two of them put together. Chased out of Hungary by the Nazis, Szoke Szakall later pitched camp in Hollywood, where he gained a whole new fan following as S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rosie Barsony, Ernst Verebes, (more)
- 1933
Another spin on the life of "waltz king" Joseph Strauss, Walzerkrug (Battle of the Waltzes) is typical of the escapist musicals produced in Germany during the Third Reich. Having never heard a Viennese waltz, young Queen Victoria (Hanna Waag) orders the British ambassador to Austria to check out a prominent composer named Joseph Lanner (Paul Hoerbiger). The ambassador intends to bring Lanner and his orchestra to England, but is sidetracked when he discovers that first violinist Joseph Strauss (Adolf Wohlbrueck) is the most musically gifted of Lanner's aggregation. When Strauss is presented to Victoria's court, a "war of music" develops between the young violinist and pompous English composer Sir Philip (Theo Lingen). The whole matter is somehow settled when Strauss and Lanner team up to compose the famous Radetzky March (if only WWII could have been so easily avoided!) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anton Walbrook, Paul Hoerbiger, (more)
- 1932
Ein Bischen Liebe (A Bit of Love) was based on Business in America, a play by Frank & Hirschfield. A wealthy American auto manufacturer pays a visit to Vienna, there to make an inspection tour of his company's Austrian plant. Weaned on the romanticized images of Vienna as seen in the movies, our hero is rather surprised to discover that conditions in Austria are not so far removed as those in the good old USA. Well, there is one difference: while in Vienna, he manages to fall in love for the first time in his life. At this point, Ein Bischen Liebe evolves into a marital-mix-up farce, with all the expected comic cliches. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hermann Thimig, Lee Parry, (more)
- 1932
Ein Toller Einfall (A 'Phantastic' Idea) features comic actor Max Adelbert as a "poor rich man," who in spite of his magnificent mansion and priceless possessions hasn't a penny in the bank. Heading to England to negotiate the sale of his mansion, he leaves the place in the care of his nephew Willy Fritsch. In Adelbert's absence, Fritsh transforms the mansion into a hotel, packing in the customers with an elaborate floor show. Naturally, this helps to put Adelbert back on his feet, leading inexorably to a happy ending. Dorothea Wieck and Ellen Schwanecke, previously teamed in the controversial Maedchen in Uniform, portray entirely different characters in Ein Toller Einfall. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Willy Fritsch, Jacob Tiedtke, (more)
