The Man of Gold (1962)

Adaptation of Mór Jókai's classic 19th century novel on Mihály Tímár, the captain of a commercial Danube ship in the 1830s, who finds unexpected fortune by meeting a Turkish aristocrat fleeing from his home country with his daughter Tímea. On their journey, they find an unknown island on the Danube, called the Senki szigete (the Island of No-one), a sort of earthly paradise, with only an old woman and her young daughter Noémi living on it.

Directed by: Viktor Gertler

Cast: András Csorba, Ilona Béres, Marianne Krencsey, Ildikó Pécsi, Ernö Szabó, Zoltán Greguss, Hilda Gobbi, Frigyes Bárány, Juci Komlós, Zoltán Latinovits, Károly Kovács, András Ambrus

Genres: Drama, History, Romance

Rating: 7.1/10

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