Professor Hannibal

StarringCinematographyFerenc SzécsényiEdited byFerencné SzécsényiMusic byZdenkó Tamássy88 minutesCountryHungaryLanguageHungarian

Professor Hannibal (Hungarian: Hannibál tanár úr) is a 1956 Hungarian drama film directed by Zoltán Fábri and starring Ernő Szabó, Zoltán Greguss and Manyi Kiss. The film is based on a novel by Ferenc Móra set in Budapest during the Interwar period. When a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians.^[1] The film was chosen to be part both of Budapest Twelve, a list of Hungarian films considered the best in 1968 and its follow-up, the New Budapest Twelve in 2000.^[2][3]

Release

The initial popularity of the film is hard to judge as five days after it premiered on 18 October 1956 the Hungarian Uprising began. It was re-released in 1957.^[4]

Partial cast

• Ernő Szabó as Nyúl Béla
• Zoltán Greguss as Muray
• Manyi Kiss as Nyúl Béláné
• Noémi Apor as Lola
• Emmi Buttykay as Mici
• Hilda Gobbi as Vogelmayerné
• Oszkár Ascher as Schwarz Béni
• Ödön Bárdi as Danielisz
• Béla Barsi as Menyus
• Ferenc Bessenyei as Hannibál
• György Kálmán as Újságíró
• Zoltán Makláry as Manzák
• László Mensáros as Török
• László Misoga as Vogelmayer
• Lajos Rajczy as Rezsõ úr
• Mihály Selmeczy as Ofenthaler igazgató
• Rudolf Somogyvári as Vidrozsil
• József Szendrõ as Wilhelm

References

Bibliography

• Cunningham, John. Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex. Wallflower Press, 2004.

External links

• Professor Hannibal at IMDb