Dajka Margit
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 13, 1907
Place of Birth: Nagyvárad, Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia
Known For
Hasty Marriage
The protagonists of a comic Romeo and Juliet story full of gags are two widowed pensioners. Nádor and Mrs. Komáromi meet in the cemetery while mourning their dead spouses and they fall in love.
That Lovely Green Grass
Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An idea comes to Misu to spend the summer in an active way. He organises a working party to sod the inner court of the block of flats they live in. To achieve his plan, he has to make alliances with some people and to win the opponent to the idea, namely Kamilla, an insurance consultant. Their assistants in this mission will be the dustman and the coal deliverer and Piroska, a girl spending her holyday at Kamilla's.
There Was Once a Family
This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a burlesque and fabulous style and with the humour of a child's fantasy.
The Sack
For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and Aunt Lina, his foster-mother. He gets upset by what he experiences there: the old woman's troublesome and vexing everydays, her quiet sadness. He is overwhelmed by his own memories, the death of his foster-father and by everything he was not aware of before, or he simply wanted to forget.
Sinbad
Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád. As the protagonist looks back on his life, past and present, imagination and reality flow inseparably into one another.
Csontvary
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.
Thorn Castle
A story about two urban boys, who spend a summer at the romantic Kis-Balaton side with an old field keeper, and gradually change their point of view about their civilized life, and fall in love with the nature.
Lily Boy
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.
A Strange Role
After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for political crimes, escapes to just this side of the Austrian border. When he discovers that his escape contact has been shot, he disguises himself as a woman and, posing as a maid, takes refuge at a tuberculosis sanatorium. He lives there as a woman for the entire winter before resuming his journey in the spring.
Iron Flower
During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
Filmography
as Szerémi grófné
as Bors néni
as Mom
as Oszkár mamája
as Bruckner Szilvia
as Zarkóczy Amálka (as Dayka Margit)
as Öreg primadonna
as Hupka (as Dayka Margit)
as Orbánné, Erzsi (as Dayka Margit)
as Zsófi néni
as Anna néni
as Majmunka (as Dayka Margit)
as Piroska anyja (as Dayka Margit)
as Aranka
as Háziasszony (as Dayka Margit)
as özv. Széki Józsefné
as Piri mama
as Vass Mari
as Mrs. Rhédeyn
as Aunt Juli
as Fazekasné
as Racsákné (as Dayka Margit)
as Nagymama (as Dayka Margit)
as Aunt Bakos
as Camilla
as Iluska
as Anna, Benedek Péter felesége
as Lina, Péter elvált felesége
as Rózsi Patkós Nagy
as Vilma, Jób lánya
as Piri, Bognár's wife