Scandal in Budapest

{{Short description|1933 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = Scandal in Budapest |image = Scandal in Budapest.jpg |caption = German film poster |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Skandal in Budapest}} |director = [[Steve Sekely]]<br>[[Géza von Bolváry]] |producer = [[Joe Pasternak]] |writer = {{ubl|Sándor Faragó (play)|Aladar Laszlo|[[Károly Nóti]]}} |starring = {{ubl|[[Franciska Gaal]]|[[Werner Pledath]]|[[Lotte Spira]]}} |music = [[Nicholas Brodszky]] |cinematography = [[István Eiben]] |studio = {{ubl|[[Deutsche Universal-Film]]|[[Hunnia Filmstúdió]]}} |distributor = Deutsche Universal-Film |released = {{Film date|1933|11|3|df=yes}} |runtime = 83 minutes |country = Germany |language = German }} '''''Scandal in Budapest''''' ({{langx|de|'''Skandal in Budapest'''}}) is a 1933 German-Hungarian [[comedy film]], filmed in Hungary in the German language and directed by [[Géza von Bolváry]] and [[Steve Sekely|Istvan Szekely]] and starring [[Franciska Gaal]], [[Werner Pledath]], and [[Lotte Spira]].<ref name=book>{{cite book|editor-link1=Hans-Michael Bock|editor-last1=Bock|editor-first1=Hans-Michael|editor-last2=Bergfelder|editor-first2=Tim|title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|year=2009|location=New York|page=144|isbn=1571816550|jstor=j.ctt1x76dm6}}</ref> It was made at [[Budapest]]'s [[Hunnia Film Studio|Hunnia Studio]]s by the European subsidiary of [[Universal Pictures]], headed by [[Joe Pasternak]], which had recently left Germany in the face of Hitler's "de-Judification" of that country.

A separate Hungarian-language version was also made, with a different cast, titled ''[[Romance in Budapest]]''. Both versions were released in the United States by Arthur Mayer's DuWorld Pictures Inc.

The film was subsequently remade in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] as ''[[Top Hat (film)|Top Hat]]'', starring [[Fred Astaire]] and [[Ginger Rogers]].<ref name=book/>

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *[[Paul Hörbiger]] as Paul Murray *[[Franciska Gaal]] as Eva Balogh *[[Werner Pledath]] as Gutsbesitzr Balogh, ihr Vater *[[Lotte Spira]] as Frau Balogh, seine Frau *[[Oskar Sima]] as Direktor Roland *[[Ursula Grabley]] as Tini, Evas Freundin *[[S. Z. Sakall]] as Stangl *[[Charles Puffy]] as Ein Herr *[[Hermann Blaß]] *Egon Brosig *[[Olga Engl]] *Sándor Góth *[[Hans Reimann (writer)|Hans Reimann]] *[[Else Reval]] *[[Lotte Stein]] }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Hales, Barbara & Weinstein, Valerie. ''Rethinking Jewishness in Weimar Cinema''. Berghahn Books, 2020.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0024571}}

[[Category:Films of the Weimar Republic]] [[Category:German comedy films]] [[Category:1933 comedy films]] [[Category:Films directed by Steve Sekely]] [[Category:Films directed by Géza von Bolváry]] [[Category:Films set in Budapest]] [[Category:Films produced by Joe Pasternak]] [[Category:German multilingual films]] [[Category:Universal Pictures films]] [[Category:Hungarian multilingual films]] [[Category:German black-and-white films]] [[Category:1933 multilingual films]] [[Category:1933 German films]] [[Category:Films scored by Nicholas Brodszky]] [[Category:1933 German-language films]] [[Category:German-language comedy films]]