Set in the 18th century, this tragicomedy depicts the debauchery of aristocratic officers condemned to celibacy, in the fate of a bourgeois girl reduced to a street slum. Marie, the beautiful young daughter of the decorative arts merchant Wesener, already has a fiancé, the poster merchant Stolzius, but Desportes, an officer in the French army, has his eye on her. At first, Wesener does everything he can to keep the beauty away from his daughter. But Marie convinces her father that the Baron's intentions are honourable. The father thinks it's his chance to marry the girl above his station. But his calculations are wrong.
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Ágnes Bánfalvy
Known for
An American Rhapsody
Mephisto
István Farády
Also in
Adventures of Captain Pirx
Prés
Mária Kovács
Also in
A Worst Child in the World
Merry-Go-Round
Gábor Reviczky
Known for
Post Mortem
Liza, the Fox-Fairy
Dénes Ujlaki
Also in
The Photographer of Mauthausen
The Hungarian Dressmaker
Gábor Bódy Director
First release February 10, 1978
Languages
Original language
Hungarian
Spoken on screen
Hungarian
Release dates
Hungary · February 10, 1978
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No release date listed for United States.
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