Jenö Heltai

1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi about the romantic adventures of Kukorica Jancsi and his beloved Iluska.

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

Joe Selfridge's stage partner Olga dies. Before her death, Joe entrusts his sister Vera, who lives in Warsaw and bears a striking resemblance to his sister, to Joe. Joe takes her into his production, a thrilling world number. During their performance in Budapest, Vera meets Baron Vajk at the hotel, who once loved Olga and now thinks he has found his lost love in Vera. But what will become of Joe without Vera?

A romantic story from the time of King Matthias. Hungarian soldier Peter Agárdi falls in love with the beautiful Italian widow Zilia Duca. The virtuous lady accepts the stranger only through the persuasion of her friends and the wiles of the soldier's henchman, Beppo. The noble lady rejects Péter Agárdi's declaration of love. He then asks her to kiss him, invoking an old Piedmontese folk custom. Zilia demands three years of silence for her single kiss.

The pseudo crime story honours the bohemian world at the beginning of the century.