Lajos Mányai

Lajos Mányai

Acting
1912-02-10

Known For & Full Filmography10 Titles

#1The State Department Store

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Dancs

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Kocsis Ferenc excellent staff appointed the new director of public stores. Ilonka a talented fashion designer, Boriska a dear, Daniel, a overzealous, Klimke, a conservative sale and Glauziusz uncle, conscientious, honest book promotes the work. Ilonka initially rather just keep arguing, even though both of their lives off the job. The selfishness will love soon. Dancs Meanwhile, the old manager spreads the rumor that the new socialist trade can not meet the demand. Relatives and friends start buying into action, leading to mass hysteria. However, the new store is borne by the customer siege until the arrival of the supply.

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#2At Midnight

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Drama

On New Year's Eve in 1956 the artist couple, the actor János and the dancer Viki are hastily packing. While they are waiting for the car, which is to take them across the border, their entire life is replayed in front of their eyes.

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#3Goose Boy

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as card cheater

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.

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#4The Day of Wrath

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Gyula Viznicz

10.0 / 10
Drama

In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.

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#5The Football Star

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Venturo kapitány

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Cabinet crisis threatens in Futbólia, due to a series of lost matches. The head of state charges admiral Duca with the task, as a last chance, to get hold of the football star of the Hungarian team presently playing in Switzerland.

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#6Underground Colony

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Dalton

5.5 / 10
Drama

In 1948, when Hungarian industry counts on almost every liter of fuel, the production of Makert, an American oil company in Hungary, is declining by the day. The firm's American owners claim that the oil field is depleted. However, the new government controller, Nerges, discovers that this is sophisticated sabotage by which representatives of American industrial circles want to disrupt socialist construction in the country. With the help of Hungarian state security officers, Nergesz uncovers and neutralizes the saboteurs at the mine and hastens the Hungarian people's decision to nationalize Makert.

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#7Erkel

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m as baron Orczy, intendant

9.5 / 10
MusicDramaHistory

We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no national opera!", lamented the champions of national revival in the middle of the last century. Hungarian music culture at home is limited to the performance of works by foreign composers. And the public demands Hungarian opera, and such a challenge is not easy to meet. So let's see who is up to the task!

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#8Dollar Daddy

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as banker Bottlik

6.5 / 10
Comedy

A heavily indebted schoolteacher raising two marriageable daughters is buoyed by rumors that his long-lost uncle in America is a millionaire, until the uncle’s unexpected arrival in poverty sparks a rush of creditors, patrons and fortune-seekers. Ambitious lawyer Jenő Szekeres orchestrates the deception so that the family, the town and himself profit from the false fortune, and even when the truth comes out, everyone, including Szekeres, now eyeing a political career, chooses to uphold the lie.

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#9The bridge of life

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Márki

7.0 / 10
Drama

The war is over, but the Bodog family is starving. Varg's neighbor takes Mihai Bodog with him to do restoration work. They are well paid for this work and Mihai can finally please his wife Erji and their young son. When the workers are later hired to build a bridge, Bodog, a specialist bridge builder, cannot resist the challenge and is hired. But this time the workers are delayed in paying their wages, so their family is once again in need. Erji is forced to look for work...

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#10Keep Your Chin Up!

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.2 / 10
Comedy

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.

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