Sparrows Are Birds Too

Sparrows Are Birds Too

1968 · 80 min · ★ 6.2 · Comedy

A comedy about two twin brothers - Sándor, who emigrated and became a rich man, and Zoltán, who stayed in Hungary and lives the life of an average working-class man. When Sándor visits his twin brother, they are constantly mistaken for each other, and when Zoltán sees how differently people treat Sándor because of his money and his foreign citizenship, he begins to like being mistaken for him - until he realizes that this means he will lose his girlfriend Szöszi...

Directed by György Hintsch · Written by István Kállai

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László Kabos Holló Zoltán/Holló Sándor
Ádám Szirtes Igazgató
Piros Ildikó Szöszi
Ilona Medveczky Helén
Ferenc Kállai Vállalati munkatárs
László Csurka Szállodatitkár
Hilda Gobbi Tolmácsnő
Gyula Buss Főportás
László Inke Bécsi igazgató
László Kozák Munkatárs
József Kautzky Munkatárs
Béla Abody Konferanszié

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