We wish a happy birthday to the Actor of the Nation, who turned 90 on April 15! We like the following works the most, from feature films to series to dubbing.
In Zoltán Fábri’s work based on the novel of the same name by Ferenc Sánta, II. Post-World War II Hungary, with particular regard to the events of 1956. According to the story, which is presented in an extremely advanced time-division, a reporter arrives in a small village in 1965 and spends twenty hours on the spot to report on the past twenty years through the lives of four former servants who started together in 1945, who all had different fates: who became an ávós, who became a tea president, who became a revolutionary, and not a single one of them turned against each other.
In the shocking historical drama, Gyula Bodrogi only had a small but memorable role: he played the young doctor of the village, who by virtue of his profession became involved in the crime that connected the four people, but Doctor Kiss Did you ring the bell, my lord? agrees with his characters and thinks that
“Don’t say anything, I don’t have a headache!”
In the scene with him at the center – as is characteristic of the entire film – his own personal drama also appears: it is heartbreaking to observe that this figure longing for the countryside has set up a complete underground bar in his basement, modeled on the revelers of Pest, so that the boring from reality.
This musical spy comedy, directed by the master of Hungarian comedy, Márton Keleti, tells the story of an international spy gang disguising its members as impresarios of a music publishing house in order to obtain the blueprints for an important laser study, which were found among the accounting papers of Tokaji, the auditor of the operetta theater. The operation is led by a beautiful and, incidentally, professional judo policewoman, who uses Tokaji and his son as bait. As a producer, the band buys the younger Tokaji’s musical in exchange for the precious documents. Thus, despite the desperation of the operetta director, Attila’s orchestra and his love, the singer Kati, can hold the highly successful gala performance, with the help of the police.
In the hilarious parody, Bodrogi portrays the young musician and, as you can see in the trailer above, he even had to film an action scene. And although he is also very fun to watch (not to mention the play of such greats as Sándor Pécsi, Antal Páger, György Bárdy or János Körmendi),
a Run to catch up her real big hit was Sarolta Zalatnay, who was only 19 years old at the time of filming, in the role of Kati, who sang hits in the film such as You should be afraid.
Péter Bacsó’s political satire is one of those rare works in which Bodrogié plays the absolute main role. He plays the fictional but suspiciously familiar High Titan of Titania, who has ruled over his people for more than twenty years, but is now dying. At his bedside are his wife, Angelika, and his young general and secretary, who still do his crazy bidding. On TV, you can see the Great Titan at the height of his power, being celebrated by his people for his wise steps. He suddenly has a seizure in bed with the main titan. Angelika calls the three stuntmen and thanks them for their performance so far. The stuntmen know they have to die, so they run away into the night, the three of them three ways…
Bacsó Bacsó modeled the Great Titan played by Bodrogi on Ceaușescu, so the target of the satire is communist Romania and the personality cult of the dictator couple – but you don’t have to go back very far in time for Hungarians to be familiar with the Great Titan’s actions. It’s wonderful how the film shows the slogans used to try to make food shortages and starvation acceptable, but the Titania, Titaniawe also owe a lot of funny gold spitting to him: for example, the one in the excerpt above
“you can’t put an entire people in prison”.
Our favorite dictators on the screen
We hate tyrants, but you can make good movies about them, either as a deterrent example, or by making them an object of ridicule, as in the case of this week’s Death of Stalin. Here is our list!
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In one of the Hungarians’ favorite comedies, Gyula Bodrogi Twenty hoursalso has only a small supporting role – but one of the best scenes of the film can still be linked to him. He plays the father of the main character, Lali, the buffet cart driver, who suddenly has an idea and parks the Volán bus he drives at the food truck of the title instead of the normal route, in order to complain to his son that
“your mother didn’t love you”.
With Bodrogi’s eyes, it is obvious that he feels very comfortable in the role, and he and Péter Rudolf share excellent jokes with each other. And Ferenc Kállai shouting into the funny dialogue from behind is just icing on the cake.
In György Gát’s popular series, Bodrogi played the hesitant father of Linda Veszprémi, the karate policewoman, Béla Veszprémi, who – as by clicking here it is also said in detail that can be viewed – despite appearances
“totally normal, just an actor”.
Also in this video, we can see that the series also gave the star the opportunity to show off her dancing talent (here, we can admire her tap dancing skills).
And the above excerpt testifies to how excellent the chemistry between Bodrogi and Ildikó Pécsi, who plays his serial love interest, the visual artist Klárika, worked.
The scene between the painter and Béla Veszprémi, who paints the actor with a cape as a witness, is hilarious (as are most of the scenes featuring the pair), and the slusspoen with Linda’s unusual intrusion is simply priceless.
György Gát’s best series
György Gát, a producer, screenwriter, and director who worked in theater and cinema, died on March 13 at the age of 77, but his television works were the most popular. Let’s remember him with his best series!
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Billy Wilder’s ferocious gangster film parody set in the 1920s brought Jack Lemmon world fame. After unwittingly witnessing the showdown of rival gangs in Chicago, the two unemployed musicians, disguised as members of a women’s band, flee from the mafia leader’s men to sunny Florida, where Lemmon’s figure is pursued by a millionaire in love.
The excellent Hungarian dubbing adds a lot to the evergreen comedy:
Lemmon’s Hungarian voice was lent by Gyula Bodrogi,
who sounds slightly higher than his usual organ not only as Daphne, but also as Jerry, creating a nice contrast with the deep bass of István Sztankay, who plays Curtis.
In the brilliant cartoon series by József Nepp and Béla Ternovszky, Dr. Bubó, the wise owl, having received his doctorate, practices on top of a tree in the middle of the forest. His assistant is Ursula, the bear, with whose help he fixes all the problems of the animals living in the forest – and who (not so much) is secretly head over heels in love with him. Dr. Bubó also counts on the advice of the forest police officer, Sergeant Csőrmester, who strikes down violators with the strict force of the law. In the animated series, Bodrogi dubbed the falcon Master Chief, for which he used his deepest organ to emphasize the severity of the animal. In the excerpt below, we can see that this time the vigilant policeman has to rescue the kidnapped Bubo himself.
József Romhányi’s most memorable works
The “rímányó” has translated, written screenplays and even has his own poems – and maybe even you don’t always know that you’re quoting him.
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Gyula Bodrogi lent his dubbing voice to the title character of the adorable puppet series written by the story writer István Csukás, the unusual, one-headed dragon who does not besiege castles and kidnap princesses, but delights in butterflies, munches on wild pears, and daydreams about how good it would be to be a rosebud (because then butterflies would land on him) and makes friends with the wandering prince. After his parents disown the benevolent dragon, he finds refuge in a distant town, where, after the initial alarm, the people quickly take him into their hearts.
After that, Süsü tries to help the inhabitants of the town in many ways, be it tourism, quarrying or castle defense.
And again a memorable supporting role – this time in voice! The protagonist of Béla Ternovszky’s cult cartoon, Grabowski, the mouse agent 007, undertakes a dangerous mission: He must retrieve the secret plan for a superweapon from Pokyó, with the help of which the mice could deal with the cat syndicate that threatens their existence. In order to divert attention from Grabowski’s mission, the mice also send a one-man police band from the wall, Lazy Dick, who first suffers a plane crash, then makes a lifelong friendship with the Mexican vampire bats, only to finally take part in the more serious actions.
In the animated film, Gyula Maxipotzak Bodrogi is the Hungarian voice of the well-fed bat boss, to whom we owe such timeless quotes as the “musical dinner” or the unforgettable
“Pedro, amigo mio, we still drink canned blood today; it would be a shame for this talented child!”
10 facts you didn’t know about the Cat Catcher
Not only did it become a cult cartoon here, but it was also screened with great success in the United States and the Soviet Union. It was also made into a comic book and a board game.
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