Ave Caesar! | |
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Directed by | Alexander Korda |
Written by | László Vajda |
Starring | Gábor Rajnay María Corda Oscar Beregi Sr. |
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Country | Hungary |
Languages | Silent 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.