Writing

Károly Nóti

Born — Died

1892-02-01 — 1954-05-28

Place of birth

Tasnád, Austria-Hungary [now Tasnad, Romania]

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Date by the Danube poster
5.2

An aspiring author and the daughter of a wealthy businessman want to get married. The father of the bride agrees on one condition: his potential son-in-law's upcoming romance novel must prove to be a financial success. In order to win the bet, both men come up with their very own schemes to manipulate the book's sales numbers.

Date by the Danube

1936

Four and a Half Musketeers poster
10.0

A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased to employ Jewish filmmakers.

Four and a Half Musketeers

1935

Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten poster
10.0

Paul loves actresses but avoids to get hitched. Businesswoman Katja manages to get a singing part on stage, this way attracting him to her. Deli employee Franz is mistaken for an actor and gets a leading part - with disastrous results.

Bretter, die die Welt bedeuten

1935

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

András

1941

Tokajerglut poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokajerglut

1933

Happy poster
6.0

A young musician invents an anti-theft device for cars, but works as a jazz conductor while waiting for his invention to be successful.

Happy

1933

My Cousin From Warsaw poster
6.0

Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It's a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to carry on two amours at once.

My Cousin From Warsaw

1931

We Need No Money poster
6.3

In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.

We Need No Money

1931

Viki poster
8.0

The ancient families of Kont and Hadhazy have long been at war with each other. Lord Cont is a supporter of Vienna's rule, while Hadhazy is a follower of the Hungarian revolutionary Kossuth. Lord plans to fight Hadhazy at an approaching county meeting. Vicky, the beautiful and savvy daughter of Hadhazy's family, just before this, returns home from a Swiss boarding school for young girls, expelled because of her behavior. Vicky, dressed in a man's costume, goes to defend her father and with the honor of a nobleman fights the young scion of a family hostile to her. The young man's name is Feri Kont, and he mistakes the young man's introduction to Vicky for her brother Kalman Hadhazy. The political conflicts between the two families are mitigated by love complications. A misunderstanding at a county ball is brought to light, and the two warring camps are reconciled through the love of Vicky and Feri.

Viki

1937

Scandal in Budapest poster
7.0

Eva goes to Budapest to visit her friend Tini's wedding but as soon as she arrives, the husband-to-be breaks up with Tini. When Eva decides to take things into her own hand and follows him to the Hotel Atlantik.

Scandal in Budapest

1933

Stolen Wednesday poster
9.0

Advertising was already booming in 1933. Rohr, a Berlin soapmaker, was looking for a particularly attractive face to promote his new product. And he finds it in a shot by photojournalist Schmidt, but the problem is that Mr Schmidt has no idea where, when or who he took the photo of. So a private detective agency and the "culprit" himself, the photographer, who is, for understandable reasons, a little "forgetful", start investigating the beautiful lady.

Stolen Wednesday

1933

The mute of Portici poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The mute of Portici

1931

Pay Madame poster
7.5

A baker-turned-millionaire mill owner constantly fires directors who all end up neglecting the business and falling for his daughter Zsuzsi. When Peter returns from abroad to take over as the new director, swearing he won’t ask for her hand, Zsuzsi seizes every chance to make sure he breaks his promise.

Pay Madame

1937

No Entry poster
8.5

Tóni is a delivery man in a furniture shop. As he has no place to go, he spends the nights in an antique bed in the shop window.

No Entry

1941

Terror of the Garrison poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Terror of the Garrison

1931

Don't Need Money poster
7.5

Thomas Hoffmann arrives totally penniless from the megalopolis of Chicago and settles in the small village of Groditzkirchen. He soon forged a solid reputation there and established himself in the world of business and finance thanks to his charm and his bluff, interpreting with brio and relaxation the role of the nice millionaire.

Don't Need Money

1933

No artwork available
8.0

The lively Anny meets the nice Dr. Jack Braun and throws everything in his life into disarray. As Jack is in the middle of divorce proceedings against his wife Renate, his lawyer and best friend Richard doesn't like the idea of a female being in his vicinity. Then Jack's heiress Frieda comes to visit, and when she finds Anny in Jack's house, she mistakes her for his wife - and finds her extremely charming. When the aunt's parrot dies, the relatives believe that the aunt has died and rush to claim the inheritance. Anny emerges victorious from all this.

Eine Freundin so goldig wie Du

1930

Thanks for Knocking poster
7.2

An unemployed singer hits a girl with a car he has just stolen. She has no serious injuries but falls in love with the handsome stanger.

Thanks for Knocking

1935

Infidelities poster
10.0

When both husband and wife find romance outside their marriage, it's a shock to everyone. Robert and Annemarie break up to elope with their respective lovers, only to be thrown together again when they show up at the justice of the peace.

Infidelities

1931

My Daughter Is Different poster
10.0

Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.

My Daughter Is Different

1937

The New Relative poster
7.3

The story takes place in a small village manor-house off Vásárosladány. Sándor leads a quiet life with his wife, son and the now poor relatives of his wife, one which is characterized by the monotony of rural boredom. The arrival of another poor relative, Kitty, a young girl brought up in America, whose way of thinking reflects modern times, puts an end to this overwhelming monotony.

The New Relative

1934

Skandal in der Parkstraße poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Skandal in der Parkstraße

1932

You Will Be My Husband poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

You Will Be My Husband

1937

Biting Husband poster
10.0

Péter Ilosvay and Lina Vásárhelyi are wife and husband, but don't come along with each other. After the divorce they go on living under the same roof for they are unable to agree on the common wealth.

Biting Husband

1938

No artwork available
NR

Short film about cheap housing

Wie wohne ich gut und billig?

1931

This Happened in Budapest poster
NR

Pataky Elemér arrives in the capital as a victim in his niece's divorce case. Having to meet the lawyer dr. Orbói István is, however, an alibi in an effort to get away from his quarrelsome wife, and to have some fun at the same time. He takes the lawyer with him.

This Happened in Budapest

1944

Annemarie, the Bride of the Company poster
7.0

A military comedy in which Annemarie is the center of attention.

Annemarie, the Bride of the Company

1932

He and his servant poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

He and his servant

1931

Csibi, der Fratz poster
8.0

Showstar Csibi's mother Maria has a new suitor. In order to make Maria appear younger Csibi poses as a young brat which backfires when she meets the suitor's gorgeous brother and flirts with him while he treats her like a little child.

Csibi, der Fratz

1934

Keep Your Chin Up! poster
8.2

On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.

Keep Your Chin Up!

1954

Hyppolit, the Butler poster
7.4

Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When she engages a butler, Hyppolit, their whole life is turned upside down. It has remained one of the most viewed Hungarian comedies of all time: it is shown regularly and is still extremely popular

Hyppolit, the Butler

1931

No artwork available
9.0

Her rich uncle is coming from America so a woman has a clerk in her father's store act as her husband. Until the fake husband loses his clothes while using a washroom.

The Stork Goes on Strike

1931

Catherine the Last poster
6.5

Story of a naive kitchen maid who falls in love with a wealthy womanizer.

Catherine the Last

1936

The Bridegroom's Widow poster
10.0

The night before his wedding George gets drunk and marries a chorus girl. Her boyfriend appears, they fight and are believed dead, so she is now "the bridegroom's widow" (die Bräutigamswitwe). When they both come back one after another they must hide from the Police as they believe they have murdered each other, while the inspector believes there are ghosts in the house.

The Bridegroom's Widow

1931

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Es wird geheiratet

1932

Die Herren vom Maxim poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Herren vom Maxim

1933

Three Days in the Guardhouse poster
6.0

When an attractive maid in a garrison town becomes pregnant, she reveals that one of three soldiers stationed there who had been chasing after her, is responsible.

Three Days in the Guardhouse

1930

Pardon, tévedtem poster
7.0

Éva Balogh travels to Pest to attend her friend's wedding, but the wedding is cancelled because the groom backs out at the last minute (for the third time). Éva mistakenly blames Paul Murray, the world-famous pianist, for the broken marriage promise. The pianist, who changes his girlfriends frequently, mistakes the temperamental, snappy jazz girl for one of his forgotten old flames. By the time the truth comes out, Eve and Murray are in love, and another slap - now undoubtedly for Murray - can't keep them apart.

Pardon, tévedtem

1933

A képzett beteg poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A képzett beteg

1952

No artwork available
NR

A mix-up in prison.

Gallows humor

1932