Ave Caesar!

Ave Caesar!
Directed by Alexander Korda
Written by László Vajda
Starring Gábor Rajnay
María Corda
Oscar Beregi Sr.
Production
company
Release date
  • 1919 (1919)
Country Hungary
Language Silent
Hungarian intertitles

Ave Caesar! is a 1919 Hungarian drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Oscar Beregi Sr., María Corda and Gábor Rajnay. A debauched Habsburg Prince sends out one of his aide-de-camps to bring him back a gypsy girl. The film was considered as an attack on the aristocracy.[1] It was made by Korda for the state-owned film industry during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Once the regime fell later that year Korda was arrested and eventually compelled to leave Hungary as part of the White Terror.

Cast

References

  1. Kulik p.25-26

Bibliography

  • Kulik, Karol. Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.


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