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Ave Caesar!

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Ave Caesar!
Directed byAlexander Korda
Written byLászló Vajda
StarringGábor Rajnay
María Corda
Oscar Beregi Sr.
Production
company
Release date
  • 1919 (1919)
CountryHungary
LanguagesSilent
Hungarian intertitles

Ave Caesar! is a 1919 Hungarian drama film directed by Alexander Korda and starring Oscar Beregi Sr., María Corda and Gábor Rajnay. A debauched Habsburg Prince sends out one of his aide-de-camps to bring him back a gypsy girl. The film was considered as an attack on the aristocracy.[1] It was made by Korda for the state-owned film industry during the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Once the regime fell later that year Korda was arrested and eventually compelled to leave Hungary as part of the White Terror.

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References

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  1. ^ Kulik p.25-26

Bibliography

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  • Kulik, Karol. Alexander Korda: The Man Who Could Work Miracles. Virgin Books, 1990.
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