Mihai Toth worked for forty years as a watchman in a timber warehouse. On his last watch, there was a fire: the warehouse burned to the ground. The damage amounted to one and a half million forints. It was a terrible blow to Mihai, who had worked honestly all his life. Suddenly it turns out that Mihai has won one and a half million forints in a lottery. Wanting to save his good name, he wants to deposit this sum in the state treasury. But it turned out to be not so easy: the cause of the fire has not been established and Mihai's guilt has not been proved. That's why nobody had the right to take money from him. For a long time Mihai wandered from one institution to another with a request to accept money from him, but everything was in vain. Then the old man tried a trick...
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Cast
36 people
Zoltán Makláry
Tóth Mihály
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Manyi Kiss
Tóth, Mihályné
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Thorn Castle
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Ferenc Bessenyei
Igazgató
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The Brute
László Márkus
Göndör
Known for
The Fifth Seal
Hilda Gobbi
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The Treasure of Swamp Castle
Professor Hannibal
Miklós Gábor
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Father
It Happened in Europe
Imre Sinkovits
Hertelendi
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Return Ticket
Two Half-Times in Hell
Gábor Agárdy
Kálmán
Known for
The Round-Up
István Avar
Gyula
Known for
The Round-Up
Rita Békés
Margit
Known for
The Fifth Seal
Endre Csonka
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A selejt bosszúja
János Dömsödi
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A képzett beteg
György Palásthy Director · László Tabi Writer Barnabás Hegyi Cinematographer
First release October 29, 1964 · Produced in Hungary
Production
Mafilm
Production
Hungary
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Original language
Hungarian
Spoken on screen
Hungarian
Release dates
Hungary · October 29, 1964
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No release date listed for United States.
Russia
July 12, 1965 · Theatrical · (Moscow premiere)
September 13, 1965 · Theatrical
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