Merry-Go-Round

Merry-Go-Round

92 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 2, 1956

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.

Merry-Go-Round

92 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 2, 1956

Merry-Go-Round
In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Mafilm, Mokép
Original title Körhinta
Directors Zoltán Fábri
Writers Imre Sarkadi, Zoltán Fábri, László Nádasi

Cast

Mari Törőcsik

as Pataki Mari (as Törõcsik Mari)

Imre Soós

as Bíró Máté

Ádám Szirtes

as Farkas Sándor

Béla Barsi

as Pataki István

Manyi Kiss

as Patakiné

László Misoga

as Sógor

Antal Farkas

as Samu János

Sándor Suka

as Czigány Márton

János Makláry

as Elszámoltatóbizottság tagja

Sándor Siménfalvy

as Elszámoltatóbizottság tagja

Sándor Peti

as Pincér