UTOLSÓ ÉJSZAKA, AZ

  • Other title(s): Last Night, The
    Letzte Nacht, Die
    Nehéz szerep
    Ultima noapte
    Kígyó a paradicsomban
  • Genre: Feature film
  • Year: 1917
  • Runtime: 00:39:30
  • Description: Gitta, a young woman who used to be a famous primadonna before her marriage, abandons her husband and her son for the sake of the theatre and goes to Russia with an actor, Vándori. She performs in cabaret as a dancer and is very popular with Russian officers. A Russian colonel falls in love with her, and the debauched Vándori organizes a secret date for the colonel with Gitta. The colonel wants the woman to become his mistress, but she rejects him. Vándori is a gambler, first he gambles away Gitta’s jewellery, then Gitta as well. Years later, at the outbreak of WWI, Gitta leaves Russia with the help of the colonel. She returns home to find her family. She learns about her husband’s death and her son’s disappearance. She becomes a successful actress. A young man falls in love with her, but she recognizes him as her son. The surviving print of the film is incomplete. The Hungarian National Film Archive won the 2001 Haghefilm Award for the restoration of The Last Night. The restored colour print was produced at the Haghefilm Laboratory in Amsterdam using the Desmet method. The surviving print contains German intertitles.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / Women and the military / War and families / City and town life / autó / car / birtok / estate / előadás / show / ezredes / colonel / földesúr / landlord / gyilkosság / homicide / hadnagy / lieutenant / halál / death / harctér / battlefield / kabaré / cabaret / kártya / card game / katona / soldier / kert / garden / orfeum / music hall / orosz / Russian / Oroszország / Russia / öngyilkosság / suicide / rendőr / police officer / revolver / revolver / sofőr / chauffeur / szálloda / hotel / szerencsejátékos / gambler / színész / actor / színésznő / actress / színház / theatre / szoba / room / tiszt / officer / táncosnő / dancer / zsarolás / blackmail / I. világháború / World War I. / I.VH / WWI / Lövészárkokon túl / Beyond the trenches / Háború a hátországban / The war at home / Szórakoztatóipar a hátországban / Entertainment at home / Filmgyártás az I. világháború alatt / Film production during World War I / Az I. világháború, mint az európai filmipar fejlődésének katalizátora. / WWI as the facilitator of the development of the European film Industries
  • Provider: MaNDA
  • Rights: In Copyright / Film Rights - Title of ownership: A magyar állam
    In Copyright / Film Rights - Economic Rights: Magyar Nemzeti Digitális Archívum és Filmintézet
    In Copyright / Film Rights - Rights of distribution: Magyar Nemzeti Filmalap Zrt.
    In Copyright / Author Rights: FilmJUS Filmszerzők és Előállítók Szerzői Jogvédő Egyesülete
  • Production company: Transsylvania
  • Colour: Tinted
  • Director: Janovics, Jenő
  • Sound: Without sound
  • Collection: Restored silent film
  • Language: de