Lily Boy

Lily Boy

109 mins | Comedy, Music | Feb. 24, 1955

Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.

Lily Boy

109 mins | Comedy, Music | Feb. 24, 1955

Lily Boy
Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Mafilm
Original title Liliomfi
Directors Károly Makk
Writers Ede Szigligeti

Cast

Iván Darvas

as Liliomfi

Marianne Krencsey

as Mariska

Margit Dajka

as Camilla

Samu Balázs

as Szilvay professzor

Éva Ruttkai

as Erzsi

Imre Soós

as Gyuri

Sándor Pécsi

as Szellemfi

Sándor Tompa

as Kányai

Vera Szemere

as Zengõbércziné

Dezső Garas

as Ifjú Schnaps

Gábor Rajnay

as Pejachevich gróf

János Rajz

as Pandur

Alfréd Deésy

as (uncredited)

Árpád Gyenge

as Muzsikus (uncredited)